r. J. B. Tyrrell began his work of exploring in
through countless obstacles to the shores of two Northwestern Canada in 1880, and during the ensuing
great oceans. His men grumbled at the hard fifteen years he made many important additions to our
ships they were forced to endure, and some knowledge of the geology and geography of what is still
times lost heart for a time when nature seemed
the least known part of Canada. In 1893, accompanied
by his brother, Mr. J. W. Tyrrell, as his assistant,
too much for them; but they dared not rebel.
he traversed the so-called Barren Grounds from Lake
They both feared and admired their leader. Athabaska eastward to Chesterfield Inlet, and from
Hearne lacked neither personal courage nor there his party paddled in canoes down the west shore
endurance, but he had little or no control over
of Hudson Bay to Fort Churchill. Of the 3200 miles
his unruly native followers. The real leader of
thus traversed, 1650 were previously unsurveyed and
unmapped From Fort Churchill Mr. Tyrrell walked
his expedition was the remarkable Chipewyan
eight or nine hundred miles on snowshoes to the south-
chief Matonabbee, whose attitude toward Hearne ern end of Lake Winnipeg. In 1894 he again crossed
seems to have been an odd mixture of affection the Barren Grounds, this time travelling from the north
and contempt. Mackenzie organized and carried
end of Reindeer Lake to a point on Hudson Bay, about
200 miles southwest of Chesterfield Inlet. Thence he
out his two explorations without any outside
went to Churchill as before in canoes along the open
assistance — in fact, in spite of the tacit opposi coast. From Churchill Mr. Tyrrell again, by another
tion of the partners of the great fur-trading route, walked on snowshoes to the southern end of Lake
company to which he belonged. Hearne, on Winnipeg. On this journey he travelled about 2900
the other hand, was equipped and sent forth
miles, of which 1750 were by canoe and 750 on snow-
shoes. Almost the whole journey was through perfectly
by the Hudson's Bay Company, with definite
unexplored country. For the geographical work done
instructions as to what he was to do in every in these two years he was awarded the Back Premium
possible contingency. He was, in fact, over-bur- by the Royal Geographical Society of London.”
dened with instructions, as he dryly points out
In reply to an enquiry whether any other
in his Introduction. Nevertheless, if Hearne's
white man had visited the regions described by
actual achievement was inferior to that of Mack-
Hearne, Mr. Tyrell himself writes :
enzie, his manner of telling about it is vastly
“I happen to be the only one since Hearne who has
superior. Mackenzie's style is dry and some conducted explorations in the country lying between
times labored. His one great object was to reach Fort Churchill and the eastern end of Great Slave Lake
his goal, and he ignored everything that had no and south of latitude 63° N. Except Hearne, I and
direct bearing on his journey or its speedy com-
those who have accompanied and assisted me are the
only white men who have crossed that great stretch of
pletion. His men, white and red, were merely
country, north of a line between the mouth of the
pawns in the game. We get no' glimpse of Churchill River and Lake Athabasca and a line between
their personalities, and hear little of the tribes the east end of Great Slave Lake and Chesterfield Inlet.
visited by the way. But Hearne, if he could
Absolutely the only information that I had about the
not control his native companions, took the
region when I visited it, other than what I had secured
in conversation with Indians, was contained in Hearne's
keenest interest in their individual and tribal
book. My last journey was made sixteen years ago, and
characteristics ; and his account of the tribes of no white man has since travelled across that country.
the extreme North remains to-day, after a lapse With the building of the railroad to Fort Churchill, it
of two and a quarter centuries, the best avail-
will doubtless soon be visited. Since I made a survey
of Chesterfield Inlet and its vicinity, my brother Mr.
able. He was untiring in his study of the man-
J. W. Tyrrell, has crossed from the east end of Great
ners and customs of the northern Indians, and Slave Lake by the Hanbury River to Chesterfield Inlet,
never missed an opportunity of questioning making a survey as he went, and the Royal North West
them. All this material he preserved in his nar-
Mounted Police have sent parties from the Mackenzie
rative, and put together with the skill of a born
River to Hudson Bay along this route, using my brother's
maps as their guide. It is hardly necessary to say that
story-teller. He makes us see the things he saw,
a magnificent field for exploration is still left in that
the places he visited, the native games and cere- | far northern country.”


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In his admirable Introduction, Mr. Tyrrell sal interest, like the author's recollections of
has brought together all that could be gleaned Henry Clay, and her impressions of Abraham
from widely scattered sources as to the life and Lincoln,—the “ power of his personality” and
achievements of Hearne. One particularly in “ the summer lightning smile which played over
teresting find is an obituary notice which he dis his rugged face” leaving upon her a life memory
covered in the 1797 volume of the “ European of the White House levee which she attended, as
Magazine and London Review," and which con- | a young girl, where foreign ministers in regalia
tains the only known account of Hearne's early crowded against backwoodsmen in flannel shirts
life, before he went forth to discover the Cop- and “Sunday coats.”
permine. Hearne's text has been illuminated With the first notes of war, and the battles
by a number of valuable foot-notes, those of a of Bull Run and Manassas, conditions changed
geographical or ethnological nature being by Mr. rapidly from abundant luxuries and gayety in
Tyrrell, and those bearing on natural history Southern homesteads to scenes of ruined estates,
by Mr. E. A. Preble, of the Biological Survey, physical suffering, and mental anguish. One
Washington, who spent a summer on the west feels the thrill of patriotism and the spirit of un-
shore of Hudson Bay north of Churchill, and daunted loyalty of the women of the Southland,
several other seasons in the Mackenzie River as Mrs. Harrison portrays their glad exchange
country and the region north of Great Slave of their beautiful homes for shelter in barren
Lake. To the original illustrations of Hearne's | inns and wayside cabins, that they might thus
Journey, Mr. Tyrrell has added a number of his be near to nurse and to nourish their wounded
own photographs of the Barren Grounds, and soldiers. Vivid scenes are reënacted at the im-
several additional maps. Altogether this new provised hospitals at Culpepper Court House,
edition of one of the most fascinating among and at Camp Winder, where Mrs. Harrison's
the older books of travel is creditable alike to mother was nurse-in-charge and her daughter
the editor, to his colleague Mr. Preble, and to | Constance was a brave and resourceful atten-
the Champlain Society.
dant.
LAWRENCE J. BURPEE. Many of the Recollections cluster about
Jefferson Davis, from his inauguration at
Richmond, with enthusiasm and hope, to the
scenes of his final arrest, imprisonment, and
A SOUTHERN WOMAN'S RECOLLECTIONS release. Mr. Burton Harrison, a Virginian by
OF SIXTY YEARS.*
birth and a Yalensian by training, left his
“ Recollections, grave and gay” is the apt position as professor at Oxford University, in
and predictive title chosen for the volume of Rem- | Mississippi, to become the private secretary of
niscences by Mrs. Burton Harrison. “Grave Jefferson Davis. With deep affection for his
and gay” incidents are well mingled in this in- chief, and haunting memories of him, Mr. Har-
teresting and readable book. The earlier chap- rison has related the incidents of the capture of
ters introduce the reader to Virginia before the Davis and his staff, and Mrs. Harrison has
War, and to several of her aristocratic families, wisely incorporated portions of this narrative
some of whom were kin to Mrs. Harrison. In into her volume.
direct and intimate style she recalls her girlhood Another dramatic incident is told in Chapter
as Constance Cary, at Alexandria and Vaucluse, | V.- a journey of the young Southern girl and
the ancestral home of the Fairfax family. Gene her aunt to Washington to carry family papers
alogical data, sometimes seemingly too detailed, and securities, making their way over swollen
are enlivened by racy accounts of romances and streams, suffering extreme cold, hunger, and
festive hospitality. The author explains : “I fatigue, compelled to return as prisoners of war,
am making no attempt to record chronologically crossing the Rappahannock at wild flood-tide by
the events of my modest experience in childhood. stepping in the darkness from tie to tie on the
I am simply writing down, as they drift to me railway bridge. Side-lights upon Southern gen-
out of the mists of memory, things about people erals are mingled with frank confessions of ro-
most familiar to me, thinking it may interest mantic meetings and the yearnings of girlhood
readers as a page torn from old-time chronicles for new“ finery.” The omens of evil which pre-
of American social life before the War.” ceded the inarriage of beautiful Hetty Cary and
There are occasional reminiscences of univer General Pegram, and the tragic sequel in the
*RECOLLECTIONS. GRAVE AND GAY. By Mrs. Burton
husband's fatal wound three weeks after the
Harrison. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons.
| wedding, are related with tender sympathy. In


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the burning and looting of Richmond perished
the author's first published book. With inher-
ited tastes and ambitions, she had contributed,
during the War, several tales and verses to
Southern periodicals; but her professional liter-
ary work was postponed for many years.
The close of the War gave respite from the
physical strain, and a feeling of gratitude that
her mother and her brother, who had been a
midshipman, had escaped fatalities; but she
bore a burden of great anxiety for Mr. Burton
Harrison during his months of solitary imprison-
ment at Fort Delaware as an accomplice of Jef-
ferson Davis. After the release of her lover she
passed a year abroad with her mother, studying
music and preparing for her wedding which took
place at her uncle's home in Morrisiana.
The later chapters of this book reveal social
New York of the last quarter of the nineteenth
century. There are detailed descriptions of local
customs, social leaders, and musical and literary
clubs. To the home of Mr. and Mrs. Harrison,
in proximity to Gramercy Park with its coterie
of literary neighbors, came men and women of
distinction in varied professions. The attain-
ments of Mr. Harrison in law and statecraft,
and the social and literary interests of Mrs.
Harrison, are suggested without conceit. Per-
sonal glimpses are given of prima donnas and
actresses of earlier and later fame— Ristori and
Clara Louise Kellogg, Ellen Terry, Booth and
Modjeska, Coquelin and Mrs. Fiske. Besides
her short stories and longer novels, like the
anonymous “ Anglomaniacs” which was one of
the “best sellers” of its day, Mrs. Harrison
has written skilful verses and a few successful
plays, notably “ The Unwelcome Mrs. Hatch."
Her reminiscences include also her service on
pioneer boards of hospital visitation, activities
in household decorative arts and in amateur the-
atricals. With a light pen she portrays social
life in Washington and London, and a “ Loop
around Europe” with her husband and son.
Interesting acquaintances were also made dur-
ing the three winters in southern Europe, fol-
lowing the death of Mr. Harrison in 1904. And
so the narrative runs on, sometimes seriously
and again in the vein of kindly gossip about
personalities abroad and at home, until it stops
suddenly and yet naturally, with the author's
he author's
words : “ In our busy world, events go on ac-
cumulating till there seems no way to call a
halt in a chronicle like this save by laying down
the pen; and that I proceed to do.”
ANNIE RUSSELL MARBLE.
PARIS UNDER EIGHT REGIMES.*
“ Eight régimes” is perhaps not the way to
put it-since two of them were revolutionary.
Still, the revolutionary regimen is the most try-
ing of all, when you come to that. The essential
point is that we see Paris, in the “Recollections
of a Parisian," through the eyes of a “typi-
cal” Parisian. It follows, therefore, that Dr.
Poumiès de la Siboutie was a provincial born -
coming of “ an old bourgeois stock in the town
of Périgueut.” Born on the eve of the great
revolution, when he went up to Paris as a medi-
cal student, in 1810, he found ruin and desola-
tion.
“The churches and convents were dilapidated, des-
serted. On their walls, as on those of many public build-
ings, could be read the legend: National Property.
For Sale.' As late as 1833 a like inscription was still
to be seen in the southern tower of Notre-Dame."
The young man's disillusionizing impression of
Paris, “ the city of his dreams,” is significant,
for he did not go up to the capital in the spirit
of a reactionary: on the contrary his father was
a republican, albeit a moderate of moderates;
and he himself had sung the stirring music of
the movement — “Ca ira" and the “Marseil-
laise." Indeed, when the time came to expel the
Bourbons for the second time, the lively Doctor
was only too glad to wish Charles X. godspeed
—and to credit the good intentions of Louis
Philippe, for whose rule he is an apologist. But
nothing is more interesting than the manner in
which conservatism gains upon the diarist. He
sees only crime and futility in the revolution of
1848; and though, later on, he voted to make
an emperor of the Prince-President, it is easy
to see that his thought was only to steady
France, — that he entirely lacked enthusiasm.
The last words in this book — the last written
by him, that is -- express the prayer: “May
God protect France ! ”
But this is not a “preachy” volume, nor one
devoted to political theory. On the contrary,
what one specifically notes about the author's
politics is his liberality—his toleration, his pos-
session of a degree of sweet reasonableness sel-
dom matched in France. One enjoys, in the
book, the intimate glimpses into the life of the
periods to whose dramatization Balzac devoted
himself: from the Revolution through the reign
of the Citizen-King. His account of boyhood
*RECOLLECTIONS OF A PARISIAN (Docteur Poumiès de la
Siboutie) under Six Sovereigns, two Revolutions, and a
Republic (1789-1863). Edited by his daughters, A. Branche
and L. Dagoury. Translated from the French by Lady
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impressions of the Revolution, as it occurred in and realizes that his hopes for his house are
a province, in itself makes the book worth own forever blighted by this one mad act. Now the
ing. But one enjoys, too, the many unstaled son has quite recently been married, and at just
anecdotes of city, salon, court, and hospital. this time his wife dies at Carne after giving birth
There is great simplicity in the narration. “ As to a boy. But he has also carried on an amor-
I do not aspire to the position of an historian," ous intrigue with the daughter of the house-
writes Dr. Poumiès, “and only wish to relate keeper at Carne, who believes that she has been
what happened under my own eyes, I will pass | made the really lawful wife, and she also gives
at once to the events of February.” This sen birth to a boy at about the same time. When
tence suggests better than any word explanation Sir Denzil retires to his ancestral home to pass
what is the nature of these “ Recollections." the remainder of his days in grim seclusion
They are undistinguished by phrase-making or from the world, he asks to see his heir, and the
fireworks. On the other hand, they are exceed two boys are brought in, one by the housekeeper
ingly well translated, and there is, besides a and the other by her daughter, and both women
general index which I have put to the test, a protest that they do not know which is which.
brief biographical index.
There is no doubt whatever that they do know,
WARREN BARTON BLAKE. but they keep the secret, and every effort to
discover it is baffled by their stolid resistance.
The daughter soon disappears from the scene, to
RECENT FICTION.*
reappear many years later as a famous dancer
Mr. John Oxenham is a novelist who is rarely
and the morganatic wife of a Russian grand
disappointing, and “The Coil of Carne" is one
duke. The boys are named Jack and Jim,
of the best books he has ever written. It is a
and the mystery of their parentage constitutes
" the coil of Carne.”
fine example of the old-fashioned novel, which
They have a neglected
childhood, and are growing up as young savages,
makes it particularly refreshing in these days
when our fiction is mostly concerned with dull
when a new curate comes to the parish, takes
themes taken from contemporary life, and is
them in hand, and makes men of them. They
too frequently disposed to run amuck among the
develop into fine specimens of manhood, generous
moralities. Here is good romantic stuff, seized
and high-spirited, enter different arms of the
upon with zest, and vigorously fashioned into a
service, and lay their hearts at the feet of the
complication that never permits our interest to
curate's sister, who has grown up with them as
flag. The book has many times reminded us of
their playmate. All this time, they believe
Kingsley's “Two Years Ago,” and may not un-
themselves to be twins, and have no suspicion
fittingly be mentioned in the same breath with
that there is any mystery about their parentage.
that fine old specimen of healthy and warm-
Then comes the war in the East, and the latter
blooded invention. The period is the same,
third of the book tells of their part in the happen-
with the Crimean War for a background, and
ings of the Alma and Balaclava and Sebastopol.
the west coast for a setting ; otherwise there is
Jim is one of those who share in the wild charge
no definite resemblance. The story begins with
of the Light Brigade, and afterwards becomes a
the Regency, when Denzil Carron of Carne, slay-
paroled prisoner in Sebastopol during the siege.
ing a man in a gambling quarrel, finds his only
The coil is finally cut by a bursting shell, which
safety in exile, and leaves England never to re-
kills Jack and tears off one of Jim's arms. When
turn. His father, Sir Denzil, hears the news,
he returns to Carne, the old housekeeper is dying,
and her last delirious words are these: “So
* THE COIL OF CARNE. By John Oxenham. New York: t'rut un’s come back, after awl!” This is as
John Lane Co.
near as we ever come to the solution of the puz-
THE FRUITFUL VINE. By Robert Hichens. New York:
Frederick A. Stokes Co.
zle. Many matters essential to the action have
TODDIE. By Gilbert Watson. New York: The Century Co. been omitted from this brief summary, but we
HILDA LESSWAYS. By Arnold Bennett. New York: | have given enough to show what fine material
E. P. Dutton & Co.
the author has had to work with, and we wish
A Safety Match. By Ian Hay. Boston: Houghton
Mifflin Co.
to emphasize once more the fact that he has put
THE NINE-TEnths. By James Oppenheim. New York: | it to splendid romantic use.
Harper & Brothers.
The desire of a childless couple for offspring
KENNEDY SQUARE. By F. Hopkinson Smith. New York: ) is the motive about which Mr. Robert Hichens
Charles Scribner's Sons.
THE IRON WOMAN. By Margaret Deland. New York:
has constructed the very voluminous novel en-
Harper & Brothers.
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which easily lends itself to romantic treatment, time of that book's appearance, was its failure
and its possibilities hardly justify the five hun to account for Hilda's mysterious conduct in de-
dred pages which are written around and about serting Edwin just after they had exchanged the
it. The couple are an Englishman and his wife pledges of their mutual love. A brief note in-
living in Rome. The man has forsaken the formed the latter that the writer was married to
diplomatic service in a moment of petulance | one George Cannon, whose name was thus first
he had wished an appointment to Vienna, and | brought to our attention, and the later accounts
had been offered one at Stockholm instead - of Hilda's life as the keeper of a lodging-house
and has become an idler with a gnawing ambi- | in Brighton gave us to understand that her hus-
tion. The woman is an enigmatical beauty, band had been a criminal and had left her to
who feels that she cannot retain her husband's look after herself. We were informed at theclose
love unless she bears him a son, and, that con that a second novel would clear up the mystery.
summation failing, plunges into bridge and other dovetailing the experiences of Edwin and Hilda.
social distractions. This is the situation which Mr. Bennett has now kept his promise by writing
is interminably prolonged until the woman at | “Hilda Lessways," from which we learn that
last succumbs to temptation, and enters into the heroine had been infatuated with George
an intrigue with an Italian lover. A child is | Cannon from her early girlhood, that she had
born, and Sir Theodore supposes it to be his | been secretly married to him, and that it was
own. Then the mother dies, and the truth comes just after her discovery that her husband had
out. The shock of this discovery is modified for | another wife still living that she had yielded to
Sir Theodore by the realization that his wife's | Edwin's suit. This is a little puzzling, for Edwin
fault had resulted from an excess of wifely de Clayhanger had never heard the name of George
votion, and, conscious of his own shortcomings | Cannon, although the latter had lived for many
in the marital relations, he cries, “She was bet- years in the neighborhood, and had become rather
ter than I,” and there the story ends. As an notorious in more ways than one. So the mys-
intimate picture of Roman society, done in great tery turns out to have been nothing more than
detail, the book is a pronounced success, of much | a tricky device on the part of the author to keep
the same sort that was achieved by Marion the interest in suspense, and necessitate the writ-
Crawford in the same field. It has both truthing of a second book by way of explanation. Of
of fact and distinction of style, but it is lacking this second book, we are bound to say that, while
in the passionate sweep and poetic charm that | it solves the original puzzle, it does so in a rather
the author has been able to put into the better | commonplace fashion, and by no means gives us
of his previous works.
a counterpart of “ Clayhanger” either in psy-
For a quiet study of Scotch character, relieved chological penetration or in sympathetic delinea-
by humorous glints, a good deal is to be said | tion. This “ Ring-and-the-Book" method of
for Mr. Gilbert Watson's “Toddie.” The telling the same story from the view points of
scene is St. Andrews, and Toddie is the major's different observers is not justifiable unless each
caddie. Both are misogynists, but the major new version comes to us as a fresh and vital crea-
shows signs of weakening, and Toddie views | tion. Mr. Bennett has flagged upon the second
with alarm his master's increasing intimacy with “lap," and his “ Hilda Lessways” is distinctly
Miss Charity of the manse. Her maid Devina disappointing. It makes the impression of a task
is also much concerned about the symptoms ex- perfunctorily performed, and is stretched out to
hibited by her mistress, and enters into an offen the desired length by a forcing process in which
sive and defensive alliance with Toddie to avert resort is had to a great deal of insignificant ma-
the threatened matrimonial calamity. But the terial. Particularly, it carries beyond all rea-
outcome is that Toddie and Devina learn some sonable bounds the device of accompanying the
thing new about themselves, and each of them act and the spoken word by a statement of the
gives up his most cherished convictions about unuttered thought. We should say that nearly
the other sex. After this defection from the de- one-half of Hilda's words here printed within
fence, there is nothing for it but that the major inverted commas were not spoken at all, but were
and Miss Charity should also pair off. The two- only the thoughts that flitted across her con-
fold complication is thus straightened out, and sciousness. This sort of thing may be psychologi-
the manner in which it is done is both deft and cally effective if it is done sparingly, but some-
beguiling.
thing should be left to the imagination, and the
The chief artistic defect of Mr. Arnold Ben- stuff becomes mere padding as the author here
nett's “ Clayhanger,” as we pointed out at the makes use of it. We should still think “Hilda


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Lessways "a novel of remarkable power were we whether they are of colliery men in England, or
not compelled to match it all the time with the of garment-workers in New York. It is from
extraordinarily high standard of achievement one of these cases to the other that we turn
set up by its two great predecessors; it simply when we take up the story which Mr. James
falls far short of meeting the test when that in Oppenheim has called “The Nine-tenths.” Here
evitable comparison is made. There is yet to we have, not an objective view of the matter, but
be a third novel in completion of the series, and a situation skilfully devised for the purpose of
that, we trust, will reveal once more the conscien special pleading – no humor, but an overplus
tious artistry and the high creative faculty that of sentimentality. Mr. Oppenheim is dreadfully
proved so overwhelming in “Clayhanger” and in earnest, and his vivid picture of the suffering
« The Old Wives' Tale.”
of the poor makes a strong appeal to our sympa-
The rectory which is the home of the Rev. thies for the time being, but reflection soon shows
Brian Vereker is a very humble abode, for the that his judgment is biassed, and that the prac-
parish stipend is small, but it is made cheerful tices he approves of are inimical to the sacred
by six engaging children having as many pro | principle of individual liberty. The story opens
nounced individualities. They are motherless, with a description of a fire horror in a printing
and the household cares rest chiefly upon the establishment. The proprietor is made frantic
shoulders of the eldest girl, Daphne, who is still by the disaster, and, although fairly chargeable
in her teens. It is difficult to make both ends | with nothing more than contributory negligence,
meet, but the family all regard poverty as an feels himself guilty of murder. His one idea is
exhilarating game rather than as a crushing bur. now to devote the rest of his life to the better-
den. Upon them one day descends in his auto ment of the working-classes, and so he goes to
mobile — Deus ex machinâ— Sir John Carr, live in the slums, publishes a socialist newspaper,
in boyhood days fag of the Rev. Brian, and now and becomes a leader in the social warfare of class
pit-owner, captain of industry, and Member of against class. Incidentally, he well-nigh breaks
Darliament. He comes, and he lingers ; for | the heart of the girl to whom he has just become
aphne, owning less than half his years, allures engaged; for, instead of seeking help in her com-
m, and before he departs she is his affianced panionship and sympathy, he just deserts her,
Wife. It is a rather cold-blooded arrangement, and leaves her with nothing but her shattered
because the girl's chief reason for accepting his hopes. Thefactthat she forgives him, and comes
Suit is that she may be able to provide for the to him in the end, does not make his previous
younger members of her family. This explains conduct any more excusable. The best we can do
why Mr. Ian Hay has chosen “ A Safety for him in this connection is to make the chari-
Match " for the title of his story. The mar- | table assumption that his mind was unhinged
riage does not work very well for a time, be for the time being. In this book realism is car-
cause the wife's nature has now been really ried rather far in the matter of both description
awakened, and because the husband has for so and dialogue, and, in general, we are offered
long cultivated self-control that is not easy for photography rather than artistic vision.
him to unbend. There comes a period of es- A mellow tale — which is also a trifle melodra-
trangement, and the wife even indulges in a little matic of the South in the forties and fifties, is
mild flirtation ; but she is sound at heart, and | provided by Mr. F. Hopkinson Smith's “ Ken-
when Sir John's character is at last revealed to nedy Square.” The chief figure in this story
her, she makes up for all her previous lack of is St. George Temple, a dear quixotic gentleman
wifely affection It takes a tragedy to work this of the old school, embodying those fine ideals of
consummation, for Sir John is blinded by an ex courtesy and honor which the author would have
plosion in the coal mine which he has entered at us believe were characteristic of good Southern
great personal risk to save the lives of his im- society half a century ago, and which have almost
perilled men. One of the best things about this disappeared from our newer civilization. Mr.
book is its dealing with the vexed problems of Smith has preached to us in this strain many
labor agitation. There is no sentimentality in times before, but never with greater fervor of
the discussion, but instead clear-sighted judg- expression. And making all proper allowances
ment and kindly humor. There is humor, in for the spectacles through which we are apt to
fact, everywhere, of the sparkling rather than view a long vanished past, we have no doubt that
the gleaming variety, and it makes the book de life had a more gracious aspect in those bygone
lightful to read.
days than it presents to us in this bustling new
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a way that reminds us of Job, but the sweetness How completely the mischief is done will be
of his temper remains unaffected by adversity, | clear to all who know the author's stern philoso-
and neither illness nor poverty can rob him of phy on the subject of the marriage-bond.
his dignity and poise. His misfortunes follow, Elizabeth has given herself to a worthless man,
in a measure, from his affection for young Harry and her love for David is the central fact of
Rutter, the ostensible hero, whose hot blood gets | her life ; but the thing is irrevocable. The
him into a duel, in consequence whereof, although story works up to a powerful climax in which
his antagonist is only wounded, his father disowns Elizabeth, learning how despicable is her hus-
him and his sweetheart casts him off. It takes band, is on the point of taking refuge in David's
some five hundred pages to close this double arms, when she is saved by Mrs. Richie's inter-
breach, for both pride and obstinacy have to be vention, whose confession of the misstep that had
overcome at the cost of much heroic endeavor. clouded her own past brings about the necessary
Both father and sweetheart suffer a good deal in revulsion of feeling. It is a sort of salvation that
the process, but they seem fairly to deserve the many readers will question, so strongly will their
chastening. An interesting but rather irrelevant sympathies have been enlisted on the side of the
episode introduces Poe among the characters, lovers, and so loose is the current philosophy
and makes a cruel exhibit of his besetting weak- of individualism upon this subject; but we can-
ness. The whole story is related in leisurely not soberly deny that it is a real salvation, based
fashion, and is drenched with harmless senti- upon the most fundamental principles of social
mentality. In the end St. George's fortunes are solidarity. We have said nothing thus far about
restored, the lovers are brought together, and “the iron woman " who gives the novel its title,
the father becomes reconciled to his son, which and yet it is she who dominates all the phases of
is all that anyone could wish to happen. the complication, and has for us a deeper interest
“The Iron Woman," by Mrs. Margaret than any of the younger people, or than Helena
Deland, is in a certain sense a sequel to “ The Richie. Her grim unlovely exterior at first re-
Awakening of Helena Richie.” At least Mrs. pels, until we gradually become awareof the pas-
Richie, in beautiful middle age, chastened by sionate heart beneath, with its unsatisfied yearn-
experience and the cleansing fires of spiritual ing for sympathy and comprehension, and its
conflict, occupies an important place in the new powerlessness to express what is bestand deepest
scheme of things, and David, now on the verge in her nature. This figure is indeed a triumph
of manhood, is still by her side. He is a new | of characterization, and assures for its creator a
David, not altogether what we should have an place among the masters. As for the richness
ticipated from the boy who won such a hold up- of the whole book in clear-sighted observation
on our affections, but probably a more natural and broad sympathy and wise criticism of the
and human figure. The scene is shifted to an. conduct of life, no formal statement can be any-
other Pennsylvania town— a town which has where nearly adequate to convey more than an
its excuse for being in the iron works of which inconsiderable fraction of the truth.
the widowed Mrs. Maitland is both owner and
WILLIAM MORTON PAYNE.
manager. There are two children — Blair and
Nannie - in the Maitland household, the fruit
of the widow's two marriages. Then there is
PROFESSOR RAYMOND MACDONALD ALDEN has com-
Elizabeth Ferguson, orphaned and living near piled, and the Houghton Mifflin Co. have published, a
by in the care of her uncle Robert Ferguson, book of Readings in the English Prose of the Eighteenth
who is the superintendent of the works. Thus
Century.” It is a big book of more than seven hundred
large pages, which means that it can give really adequate
we have the group of four young persons and
representation to the great luminaries of the age (20,000
three elders about whose fortunes the story is
to 30,000 words each), without neglecting the many lesser
constructed. Elizabeth is the Helen of the tale, writers who need to be known if the literature of the
being the prize contested for by both David and century is to be properly studied. More than two score
Blair after they have grown old enough to make
authors are illustrated altogether, and judicious annota-
tion helps to their understanding without unduly swell-
the amazing discovery that girls are something
ing the contents of the volume. The editor draws two
more than playmates. Unfortunately, Elizabeth “ morals” from the study which the work has cost him:
has a very bad temper; and that is the cause of first, that the eighteenth century seemed just as degen-
her undoing. Her repentance is as violent as
erate, and for much the same reasons, to those who lived
her rage, but repentance is of no avail when she
in it, as the twentieth century does to us; second, that
Dr. Johnson was its greatest figure, deserving all the
has cast off David, who is her accepted lover,
respect that we are likely to accord him, and even
and hastily married Blair in a moment of pique. | more.


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I.
HOLIDAY PUBLICATIONS.
coats of arms and other ornamentation. The hand-
some volume bears the imprint of Moffat, Yard
& Co.
Books OF TRAVEL AND DESCRIPTION.
Visitors to the British Museum are told the num-
Broadway historically and descriptively treated, ber of miles of shelving in the library, how many
and Broadway impressionistically and imaginatively times the books would belt the globe if laid end to end,
depicted, are the respective themes of two note- how high they would reach if piled upon each other;
worthy books conceived simultaneously but inde- / and at last they are overwhelmed by the statement
pendently, and now making their appearance for all that, vast as the accumulation is, it is increasing at
those who wish to be diverted and instructed by con- | the rate of twenty thousand volumes every year.
templating the wonders of the longest and richest Something of the same method of challenging atten-
and most spectacular street in the world. Mr. tion by means of the stupendous and imposing is
Stephen Jenkins makes prominent this superlative | adopted by Mr. Calvert in his book on Spain — a
attribute of the famous thoronghfare by entitling his large and glorious picture-book, in two quarto vol.
learned and detailed study “ The Greatest Street | umes, conspicuous in red and gold. There are over
in the World: The Story of Broadway, Old and seventeen hundred illustrations, many of them full
New, from Bowling Green to Albany” (Putnam). or half page, including some fifty colored plates from
He is a member of the Westchester County His the brush of Mr: Trevor Haddon. In his preface,
torical Society, and has for ten or more years been the author says: “It is from pictures rather than the
lecturing in New York and elsewhere on the his- text that I hope to gain for my book the commenda-
tory of Broadway and its more important landmarks. tion of the public. ... As the pages multiplied, the
Now the lecture is expanded into an octavo of five value of the pictorial side became more apparent,
hundred pages, with one hundred and sixty views with the result that what was commenced as an illus-
and six maps. The work is thoroughly well done, trated book upon Spain has become an album of
and in its pages one can journey from Bowling | Spanish views and objects, supplemented with a run-
Green to Albany far more observantly and intelli ning commentary of explanation or appreciation of
gently than by motor-car or other conveyance. — Mr. historical and archæological data." It is as a pic-
J.B. Kerfoot's volume, entitled simply “Broadway” ture book chiefly that the work is to be judged; and
(Houghton), makes its appeal to the imagination we may safely say that no album of Spanish views
and the aesthetic sense. He calls himself an impres surpasses it in magnificence. The photographs are
sionist, and both reading matter and illustrations both excellent and well selected, showing us all of
(supplied by Mr. Lester G. Hornby) are of the im Spain in rapid and brilliant panorama. The mea-
pressionist school. The bigness and the busy-ness greness of the text will readily be forgiven after
and the varied picturesqueness of Broadway are im- reading a few samples of guide-book descriptions and
pressed upon the reader by both author and artist. historical matter. Much of it has been published
Forty-three well-executed drawings, each a full-page | before by Mr. Calvert in his “Spanish Series.” All,
plate, make the work notable among the illustrated or nearly all, of the photographs seem to be the same
books of the season. In typography, paper, and as those that he has given us in the former volumes,
binding, the volume is of the best workmanship. although here they appear upon a larger and fairer
That Brussels and Antwerp are not all of Belgium, | page. The lover of fine books will delight in this
or even the most characteristic and variously inter beautiful work. (John Lane Co.).
esting part, becomes evident upon reading “Some Four strikingly attractive volumes dealing with
Old Flemish Towns," described and depicted by British rural scenes and rural characters, and appro-
Mr. George Wharton Edwards. After a most read priately illustrated in color by competent artists, are
able chapter on Flemish characteristics there follow issued by Messrs. A. C. McClurg & Co. “English
not less informing and humanly interesting ac Country Life," by Mr. Walter Raymond, is an inti-
counts of Oudenaarde, Alost, Dendermonde, Ypres, mately familiar account of the peculiarities of Sutton
Tournai, Lille, Bruges, Douai, Ghent, and other (which the reader is at liberty to locate in any county
little-visited cities of the wide well-watered plain he chooses) and its people and their ways. Char-
between the French and the Dutch boundaries. It acters like Uncle Dick, Old Abe, Micah Dodge, Our
may not be generally known that there is a flour Ursie, Mrs. Dark, and Phil Davy, give life and veri.
ishing school of literary workers in the Flemish similitude and a genuine rusticity to the short and
tongue, and their researches seem to be resulting in spirited chapters. Sixteen well-executed illustrations
a complete reconstruction of the history of Flanders. are provided by Mr. Wilfrid Ball, R.E. --" Annals
But the Belgians as a class are not great readers of of the Parish, or the Chronicle of Dalmailing during
books. The newspapers satisfy their desire for the Ministry of the Rev. Micah Balwbidder. Writ-
printed matter, and consequently the poets and nov.) ten by himself. Arranged and edited by John Galt.
elists have to write in some other than the Flemish | Illustrated in colour by Henry W. Kerr, R.S.A."
language in order to find a market for their wares. To the experienced reader this title reveals, by its
Mr. Edwards's illustrations, some in variegated hues, transparent concealment, the real character of the
others in monochrome, are numerous and good. | book. Probably, indeed, Mr. Galt does not expect
Both front cover and title-page are brilliant with | to persuade anyone that he himself is not wholly


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responsible for the worthy Mr. Balwhidder and the | Mr. James Bone, being a Glasgow man but at
events of his useful life in Ayrshire. The kirk is, the same time an ardent lover of historic Edinburgh,
of course, next to its minister, the centre of interest thinks himself sufficiently “ detached and alien” to
in the story, which abounds in character-sketches view the latter city with something of the impar-
and incidents of the genuine "kailyard" description. tiality of a foreigner, and so, as it were, to identify
The chronicler closes with “ a blessing on all people his opinions with those of a dispassionate posterity.
from on high, where I soon hope to be, and to meet His “Edinburgh Revisited” (Lippincott) takes the
there all the old and long-departed sheep of my flock, reader on a pleasant ramble through the most inter-
especially the first and second Mrs. Balwhidders.”— esting parts of the town, while seventy-five pen-and-
Mr. Mackenzie Macbride's “ Arran of the Bens, the ink drawings, both full-page and smaller, by Mr.
Glens, and the Brave" deals with the romantically | Hanslip Fletcher, greatly aid the imagination in
beautiful but hitherto seldom visited little island this personally-conducted promenade. Curious his-
just across the Firth of Clyde from Ayr. The historical incidents and scraps of myth and legend
tory and antiquities and traditions of Arran, with a enrich the vivacious pages of the book. An almost
chapter each to Wallace and Bruce, and appropriate | unknown Bunker's Hill in the New Town is the
mention of the island's scenic attractions, fill out subject of a half-forgotten story. A chapter on
the volume, which is illustrated by Mr. J. Lawton ghosts ministers to the love of the weird and the
Wingate, R.S.A. Arran and its folklore and its hair-raising. “There is a peculiar gusto and
unsophisticated ways have recently furnished inspi- smack," says the author, “in the intimate details
ration to John Synge and to Lady Gregory for of many of the Edinburgh legends of horror that
play-writing purposes, as the Irish Players have so argue sharp pleasures of the imagination, as though
lately made evident to us. — “The Pageant of the the sensuousness of a people narrowly restrained
Forth,” by Mr. Stewart Dick, with twenty-four by a religion that forbade colour and ritual, and a
colored illustrations by about half as many different climate grudging of warmth and fruit, had turned
Scottish artists, has to do with a part of the country inward for dainty feeding." In its generous pro-
very near to Arran and to Ayr. Edinburgh and portions, substantial paper, large print, wide mar-
Leith, Stirling and Dunfermline, Kirkaldy and St. gins, and, above all, its pictures full of character
Monans, and other places of historic interest, fill the and "atmosphere,” the book's appearance does jus-
pages with readable matter. The pictures, though tice to its literary contents.
small, are excellent.
So well and favorably known is Mr. Clifton
Most of the places included in Mr. Egerton R. Johnson's “Highways and Byways Series " that
Williams's “ Plain-towns of Italy: The Cities of Old | little need here be said in description of his “High-
Venetia” (Houghton) have been so little written ways and Byways of the Great Lakes ” (Mac-
about by English or American authors as to give his millan), which conducts one most agreeably through
handsome and scholarly volume, the fruit of “three parts of rural Pennsylania, Minnesota, New York,
years of continuous study, travel, and labor," a fresh Wisconsin, Michigan, Indiana, and Ohio, and af.
and very inviting appearance among the numerous fords a few glimpses of Canada, especially along
travel books of the season. History and legend, the Detroit River. Sixty-three views, chosen with
topography, art, and architecture, with useful hints an eye for the distinctive and the picturesque, and
to intending tourists, make up a volume of six hun. clearly reproduced from the author's photographs,
dred pages, illustrated with half a hundred views, illustrate the fifteen chapters of the book. Mr.
some of them photographed by the author and pre Johnson enters into frequent conversation with the
senting scenes and objects probably never before natives, and his pages are full of native humor. One
focussed by the camera. Among the towns that fig inhabitant of a not too fertile region on the shores
ure most conspicuously in Mr. Williams's pages of Lake Superior reluctantly admitted that potatoes
are Padua, Verona, Brescia, Vicenza, Treviso, and could be grown there, but added, “I think the
Bassano. All other pursuits were abandoned by him farmers' best chance is to raise grasshoppers and
in order to visit Italy and prepare this companion sell the hops.” As in other volumes of the series,
volume to his “ Hill-towns of Italy,” issued eight brief notes for the guidance of travellers are ap-
years ago. The peculiar interest of the scenes vis-/ pended to each chapter. Mr. Johnson has become
ited and the book describing them is thus indicated an expert in the kind of unconventional travel.book
in the preface: “ Fascinating, however, as are the he so successfully writes and illustrates, and he is
countless artistic masterpieces and the picturesque certainly helping on the cause whose familiar watch-
architectural dress of these towns of the Veneto, in- , word is “See your own country first."
teresting as are their historical and literary relics “They are quite out of the world,” said one travel.
and associations, there is still more to interest the led Briton to certain others of less experience, refer-
stranger, in the natural scenery of their settings and ring to the Balearic Isles; “there are no tourists; not
countrysides, and the marked diversity of their | a soul understands a word of English; and there's
appearance, customs, and inhabitants. Let no one nothing whatever to do. If you take my advice you
associate them, because they are plain-towns, with won't go.” “So we went.” Thus in part runs the
the ideas of sameness or monotony.'
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Travel in Majorca, Minorca, and Iviza” (Stokes), and “ A Bull Fight,” are good reading, except that
by Mrs. Mary Stuart Boyd, who, with artist-husband | the horrors of the national pastime will inspire in
and son, enjoyed some weeks of unwonted experience many a greater aversion than they seem to in the
among the primitive people of those sleepy and pic- author, whose humanity tends to fall a victim to his
turesque Mediterranean islands. Mr. Boyd (A. S. art-instinct in watching the stirring spectacle.
Boyd, R.S.W.) ably seconds with brush and pencil Atwenty years' residence in Scotland and frequent
(or pen it seems to be in this instance) his wife's suc- journeyings through that land of scenic beauty and
cessful attempts to convey some adequate and pleas- historic and legendary interest have qualified Miss
ing notion of Balearic manners and customs and Josephine Helena Short to put her hand to another
buildings and scenery. Mrs. Boyd is the second book of Scottish travel. “Chosen Days in Scotland”
adventurous soul this year to invade these islands (Crowell) comprises twenty-one chapters of Highland
with book-making intent, Mr. J. E. Crawford Flitch and Lowland rambling and reminiscence, with a con-
(whose “Mediterranean Moods” was reviewed in siderable section devoted to Edinburgh and its liter-
THE DIAL of August 16) being slightly ahead of her ary associations, and someagreeable pages descriptive
in bringing forth the fruit of his observant travels. of Scott's country, with appropriate extracts from
Eight brilliant color pictures, unmistakably Spanish Scottish poets. The Orkneys and the Isle of Skye,
in their atmosphere, and fifty-two pen drawings, both off the travelled route of tourists, are visited by Miss
full-page and of smaller size, help the reader to trans- Short, who tastefully illustrates her volume with
port himself to the “ Fortunate Isles.”
numerous views, chiefly the product of her own cam-
Mr. Richard Bagot might almost be called an era. The book is both a guide for the traveller and
Italianized Englishman, so many years (more than a fireside entertainer for the stay-at-home.
twenty by this time) has he lived in the country of Books about the French capital are always with
his choice, so familiar has he made himself with us, but that by G. Duval, illustrated by J. Gavin,
the language and the habits of the natives, and so and entitled “Shadows of Old Paris” (Lippin-
largely have his studies and writings concerned cott), differs from most of the rest in deserving
themselves with Italian subjects. His latest book shelfroom and a reading. A good deal of history
he entitles “My Italian Year,” apparently because is tucked away in its pages, and the learning which
he is no hasty visitor, but an all-the-year-rounder in this represents is produced in no ostentatious
Italy. He begins with some emphatic comments on manner, though with proper gusto. Letter-press
the ordinary English or American resident's igno- and pictures bear a well-balanced relation, and M.
rance of the people among whom he lives — his Gavin’s etchings and pen-sketches are both compe-
ignorance of the language, of the temperament, of tently and lovingly executed. Though this is, Dieu
the point of view of the emotional and demonstra merci, an old-fashioned kind of place-book, its col-
tive Latins whom he meets, but with whom he is laborators show something of youthful zest in their
unable or unwilling to mingle. Such defects of representations of the Palais Royal, “ Les Carmes,"
comprehension and sympathy Mr. Bagot seems to the Palais des Vosges, St. Gervais, the Seine, Mont-
have corrected in himself, living as he has lived martre, and the Narais. Some of the chapters sug-
for more than half a lifetime “almost exclusively gest in their titles nothing of the topographic: Ninon
among Italians of all classes.” Hence his book in de Lenclos, the Marquise de Brinvilliers, the Sorcer-
spires confidence, and one follows with satisfaction ers, the Inns (and not always Paris inns alone), fur-
and profit his revelations and explanations of the nish excellent subject matter. Some readers will
true inwardness of things Italian. He begins with rejoice that only the frontispiece is in colors!
northern Italy, passes through Tuscany to Rome, “California the Beautiful” repeats a novel experi-
introduces us to the Neopolitans, or vice versa, lin- | ment in book-making of a year ago. Some will re-
gers in Magna Grecia, and is ever full of instruc member “ The Vanished Ruin Era," Mr. Louis J.
tive observation on matters of either current or Stellman's portrayal, in photo-print and verse, of San
more lasting interest. Good illustrations from pho Francisco's more picturesque ruins after the great
tographs abound. The book, handsomely bound and earthquake and fire. In the same way, some of the
neatly boxed, is published in this country by Messrs. | more striking bits of scenic and architectural Cali-
James Pott & Co.
fornia now challenge the artist-photographer's skill,
The life and color of Spain may fairly be said to while accompanying each picture are one or two selec-
throb and glow in Mr. Edward Penfield's “Spanish tions, in prose or verse, mostly from western writers,
Sketches ” (Scribner), a book of most generous typo the whole compiled by Mr. Paul Elder and published
graphy and spacious margins, of rapidly.delineated by his well-known house. As in the earlier work,
scenes and incidents, and of vivid illustrations in each illustration, in brownish tint, is mounted on the
the heightened tints that serve well to emphasize right-hand page, the left being devoted to literature.
the exotic character of the surroundings into whose Stiff brown paper is used, a stout buckram-and-board
midst the reader is transported. The color effects binding matches it, and a suitable brown pasteboard
rather than the drawing of the artist-author especially | box encloses the whole. Among the many authors
impress us, and his three chapters of narrative, quoted, there fail not to appear the familiar names
“Between Towns in Spain,” “Spanish Impressions,” | of Joaquin Miller, George Wharton James, Gertrude


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Atherton, John Muir, Edward Rowland Sill, Ernest people," as he tells us, " from the point of view of a
Peixotto, Charles Warren Stoddard, and others. The rambler who has at various times cycled and trav-
pictures, by a number of photographers, are well elled many hundreds of miles along its highways
chosen and executed.
and by-ways, and has sought to learn something of
Intelligent enthusiasm for Italy and the Italians | its past history, greatness and rom
its past history, greatness and romance, and to see
breathes in the well-written pages of Mrs. Tryphosa | many of its greatest architectural and art treasures
Bates-Batcheller's truly sumptuous volume on “Ital- in most of its known, and some of its comparatively
ian Castles and Country Seats” (Longmans). “The | unknown, towns and villages." Mr. Holland uses
rare good fortune has been given to me," she writes, his camera freely and skilfully to illustrate further
“ not only to see many of the most beautiful villas of these highway and byway rambles, thus presenting
Italy, but to be lavishly and comfortably entertained a volume not unlike, in some respects, the American
by their hospitable owners whom I am happy to be “Highways and Byways Series ” of Mr. Clifton
able to call my friends. My preparations for this | Johnson. An outline of Belgian history from the
present book have heen a round of joyous happen- earliest times to the present forms the opening chap-
ings, and if my opinions of Italy and the Italians are ter, after which come descriptions of the people and
enthusiastic, it is because I must write of a country good accounts of the more interesting places, both
as I see it, and of a people as I find them." Enjoy seaside and inland. Ghent, Bruges, Waterloo,
ing the acquaintance of the royal family and many Louvain, Malines — these and other names, not to
other persons of distinction in Italy, she takes her mention Brussels and Antwerp, catch even a cursory
readers into the best society with a generosity un- reader's eye and promise no little entertainment in
equalled except in Ouida's gorgeous romances. Truly the chapters devoted to the romance, the charm,
it is good reading, and has more verisimilitude than and the varied historic, artistic, and architectural
the Ouida novel. The narrative assumes the intimate attractions of these storied towns and villages.
form of letters to the writer's mother, and is helped The beautiful blue Danube has thus far inspired
out with innumerable views and portraits, some of fewer poets and exercised the pens of fewer travel-
the former being delicately colored. A fine photo- lers than has the romantic Rhine. But with in-
graphic likeness of Queen Margherita, to whom creased facilities for making the descent of the
the volume is dedicated by permission, faces the longer river, that too should become the theme of
title-page. The reigning king and queen and many both imaginative and realistic composition. Mr.
beautiful exteriors and interiors of luxurious country Walter Jerrold, in his book, “The Danube" (Stokes),
seats are further subjects for the illustrator's art; calls that stream more beautiful, grander, and more
and our present President's cheerful countenance ap fascinating than the storied Rhine. How well he jus-
pears near the end, he being among the fortunate tifies the assertion it remains for the reader to de-
author's illustrious friends.
termine by following his course from Donauesching-
The appeal of Italy's blue skies and smiling land- en to the Black Sea, as described in detail under
scapes and splendid architecture is a strong one four heads, “ The Upper Danube,” « The Austrian
as made through the pages and the pictures of Mr. | Danube," “ The Hungarian Danube,” and “The
W. W. Collins's “ Cathedral Cities of Italy” (Dodd, Lower Danube.” Mr. Louis Weirter contributes
Mead & Co.), wherein the author conducts his readers thirty beautiful drawings, twelve of them in the hues
from Como in the north to Palermo in the south, of nature and presenting the appearance of delicate
giving them views and descriptions of twenty-five his- / water-colors. « Imperial Danube's rich domain,” as
toric towns, each famous for one or more cathedrals. Campbell styles it, has received sympathetic treat-
It is the Renaissance architecture especially that the ment from both artist and author.
artist-author seems inclined to regard as “the most
intimate expression of the Italian spirit.” Accord HOLIDAY EDITIONS OF OLD FAVORITES.
ingly, the works of Brunellesco, Michelozzo, and The poet Rogers, at one of his famous breakfasts,
Cronaca, at Florence, of Palladio at Venice, and is said to have recited from memory more than a
Vicenza, of Bramante and, above all, of Michael page from Dana's “ Two Years before the Mast,”
Angelo at Rome, he particularly admires, while such as a bit of American prose which, he thought, had
examples of the Gothic as the cathedrals at Como “ more poetry in it than almost any modern verse.”
and Genoa and Milan elicit less enthusiasm. The Extracts from the book have been chosen by United
bright and sunny pictures from the author's brush States oculists for use in the testing of eyes, because
do not confine themselves to cathedrals. The Ponte of the work's clearness of style and freedom from
Vecchio at Florence, the Bay of Naples, the Isle of long words. This deservedly popular classic, which
S. Bartolommeo, the Arch of Titus, the market-place was sold outright by its young author for two hun-
of Verona, and other picturesque or historically in dred and fifty dollars, and which achieved an aston-
teresting scenes are depicted. The book is of rich ishing circulation both at home and abroad, was
appearance, without and within.
bought back by him twenty-eight years after and
Unusually well executed are the colored illustra- | re-issued with an additional chapter. The present
tions, by Mr. Douglas Snowdon, to “The Belgians season brings forth two independent reprints of the
at Home" (Little, Brown & Co), a book whose author, work. The author's son, the third Richard Henry
Mr. Clive Holland, “ deals with Belgium and its Dana, edits an elaborately illustrated edition, to


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which he adds some most interesting prefatory mat the book, and make it one of the most sumptuous
ter and a supplementary chapter entitled “Seventy gift volumes of the year. The cover design is a
six Years After.” The Houghton Mifflin Company, thing of beauty, and an ornamented slide-case pro-
successors to the publishers of the author's edition, tects the book from injury.
of 1869, publish the present edition, while Mr. The same expert illustrator of Thoreau who last
E. Boyd Smith provides the excellent colored illus- year gave us an unequaled edition of “Walden”
trations. Useful diagrams are appended showing – Mr. Clifton Johnson — has this year bestowed his
the several parts of a ship and its equipment, with sympathetic attention on that almost equally fasci-
the technical names, also an index and other valu- nating record of the roaming naturalist-poet, “A
able matter. The other re-issue of the engrossing Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers." In-
narrative bears the Macmillan imprint, and is a fine dependent to the point of wilfulness in his goings
piece of book-making. An introduction is furnished | and comings, Thoreau once replied to a friend's
by Dr. Wilfred Grenfell, himself a one-time deep- invitation to visit him: “Such are my engagements
sea fisherman in the old-fashioned sailing craft that to myself that I dare not promise to wend your
have now largely given place to “tin kettles," as way." In wending his own way he is always a
Jack Tar contemptuously styled the innovation. picturesque figure in the landscape and an object
Mr. Charles Pears illustrates the book with spirited of unfailing curiosity and interest. Mr. Jobnson
drawings in color.
devotes the opening pages of his volume to a brief
Pickwick the ever-popular, Pickwick the peren mention of some of Thoreau's more marked char-
nially amusing, whom age cannot wither nor custom acteristics as a man, and he provides the succeeding
stale, reappears in festive array to add to the merri. | chapters from the naturalist's pen with admirable
ment of the Christmas season. Mr. Cecil Aldin and appropriate camera views along the route of his
has designed twenty-four full-page plates in color, wanderings. No fancy pictures could so well have
and nearly a hundred smaller drawings in black and enabled the reader to follow the tourist in imagina-
white, to embellish a two volume edition, in large tion from day to day throughout that memorable
octavo, of “ The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick "week.” The clear open type of the book is a joy
Club” (Dutton). In depicting the comical, in de to failing eyes, and the artistic cover design a pleas-
tails of facial expression, in catching a ludicrous atti ure to eyes of every degree of strength. The book
tude or a laughter-provoking situation, Mr. Aldin is well boxed, and is published by Messrs. T. Y.
shows himself a master not unworthy of a place in | Crowell & Co.
the immortal company of those earlier Dickens illus The fanciful, the grotesque, the gruesome, the
trators, Cruikshank and Seymour, H. K. Browne beautiful, and the comic enter into the composition
(« Phiz”) and Barnard, Frost and Dalziel, and the of Mr. H. G. Theaker's sixteen colored illustrations
other gifted draughtsmen who helped to make the to “ The Ingoldsby Legends," once more issued by
“ Household Edition" of the novelist's works so great the Macmillans as an unfailingly popular holiday
a success forty-two years ago. So full of character book for children of all ages. It is seventy-one years
are Mr. Aldin's designs that they needed no addi this winter since the Rev. Richard Harris Barham
tion of lively colors to win approval, however much complied with Bentley's request to collect into a
demanded thataddition is by the present mode. volume sundry tales and jingles, some of which had
Paper, print, and binding, all are on the sumptuous | appeared in “Bentley's Miscellany," The fertile
order in this notable centenary edition (as it may invention and facile pen of “Thomas Ingoldsby,"
be called) of Dickens's early masterpiece.
as the author chose to style himself, caused the book
No more tastefully illustrated book of verse could to run through its first edition and into a second in
be desired than the elaborately artistic edition of 1843; and since then it has undergone nobody knows
Shelley's “Sensitive Plant,” edited by Mr. Edmund how many reprintings. The artist of the present
Gosse, illustrated with much richness of coloring edition has allowed his frolic fancy as free scope
and gracefulness of design by Mr. Charles Robinson, with the pencil and brush as did the blythe Mr.
and imported by the Lippincott Co. Mr. Gosse's Barham with the pen.
introduction throws new light on the “ Lady, the The fables attributed to Æsop will retain their
wonder of her kind,” who played the part of “an popularity as long as the poems attributed to Homer,
Eve in this Eden ” where grew the sensitive plant. and will probably be much oftener read by the mul-
Drawing upon Medwin's notes to a never-published titude. A new edition of "Æsop's Fables” comes
second edition of his life of the poet, he tells us that to us from the Century Co., beautifully printed at
this paragon of her sex was a certain Countess of the De Vinne Press, and illustrated by Mr. E. Boyd
Mountcashell, an Irish lady about fifty years of Smith in line drawings that very effectively and
age, of sufficient unconventionality to be welcomed often humorously tell the story to which each is
by Shelley and his company as a congenial spirit. attached. Full page plates with ornamental bor-
The notes on this lady and the editor's gleaning of ders and smaller cuts in the printed page intensify
facts concerning the mimosa pudica, or sensitive the interest of the Fables and help to make them as
plant, celebrated by the poet, are interesting. The applicable to the present as they were to the times
illustrations, large and small, accompanying the slen- of the mythical fabulist. A delicately tinted border
der thread of text, form the conspicuous feature of l encloses each page of reading matter. A more


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attractive presentation of these immortal apologues Homes, his Friends, and his work." The volumes
could not be desired.
are of pleasing design, but faulty in their unwil-
Colored pictures of pleasing design, and, while lingness to open easily and lie open. However, we
bright and cheerful, reproducing the neutral tints have met many worse offenders in this respect.
so predominant in our every-day life, adorn the | No Christmas season would be complete without
several volumes of the “Burlington Library” (Little, its specially illustrated edition, or editions, of Dick-
Brown & Co.), which includes, thus far, “Cranford,” | ens's “ Christmas Carol.” And on this, the eve of its
“ The Vicar of Wakefield,” “ The Essays of Elia,” author's centenary, a revival of the ever-popular tale
“A Tale of Two Cities,” and “ The Imitation of is most timely. A handsome reprinting of the little
Christ.” The old-fashioned charm of Mrs. Gaskell's classic, on heavy paper, with wide margins and a
ever-delightful story is well matched by the grace baker's dozen of colored illustrations, comes from the
and the atmosphere of rural quiet and happiness in Crowell Co., Miss Ethel F. Everett being the artist
Miss Evelyn Paul's dainty illustrations. But it is in this instance, and her pictures having a rather
unnecessary to commend each volume of the set unusual character. The fantastic rather than the
separately, the other illustrators of which are Miss realistic is their note. The cover, with its represent-
Margaret Jameson, Miss Sybil Tawse, and Mr. Sep.ation of Tiny Tim on the front, is peculiar as well
E. Scott, while the “Imitation” is embellished with as artistic.
reproductions from the old masters. Each book has
HOLIDAY Art Books.
a paper wrapper with a colored picture, and each is “Turner has some golden visions, glorious and
boxed separately and sold separately.
beautiful. They are only visions, but still, they are
“The Virginian,” Mr. Owen Wister's most popu art, and one could live and die with such pictures."
lar book, celebrates its decennial anniversary by ap So said the visionary's fellow artist, John Constable,
pearing in a new specially illustrated edition. To as quoted by Mr. Č. Lewis Hind in his sumptuous
the pictures by Mr. Charles M. Russell, which depict | quarto, “Turner's Golden Visions" (Dodd), which
to the eye scenes and characters so adroitly delineated reproduces in color fifty of the master's paintings.
by the pen, are added a number of the late Frederic In sixty short chapters the author gives the story of
Remington's masterly drawings of cow-boy horse- Turner's life and the development of his art. It ap-
manship and that life of the plains that will soon pears that Ruskin's idol has been also the object of
become ancient history. Cheyenne still stands in Mr. Hind's ardent admiration from boyhood up, and
the very heart of the region chosen by Mr. Wister so his book proves to be something far other than a
as the scene of his realistic narrative of life in cattle- mere compilation or piece of perfunctory hack-work.
land; but the picturesque figures he has made live Understanding and sympathy speak in its pages, and
and move before our eyes have vanished forever. though he quotes freely from other art critics he is
Lin McLean and Scipio le Moyne and Trampas and never at a loss for a telling word with which to char-
the nameless “ Virginian” live henceforth only in acterize the various canvases and water-colors of
the novelist's pages; and they have taken a new lease Turner's that he takes occasion to discuss. The
of life in this latest edition (with its added illustra- | Turner exhibition of 1906 contributed no little to-
tions and colored frontispiece) of “The Virginian: ward an adequate appreciation of that artist's work,
A Horseman of the Plains" (Macmillan).
such as the present volume contains. Mr. Hind
Browning lovers will welcome the beautiful edi- l writes: “Ruskin really did a great service to Turner,
tion of “ Dramatis Personæ, and Dramatic Ro- perhaps even greater than the publication of Modern
mances and Lyrics” issued by the Houghton Mifflin Painters, when he rolled up the unfinished'oils and
Company in uniform style with their last year's water-colours and deposited them in the cellars of the
edition of “ Pippa Passes, and Men and Women," National Gallery. Our new joy in Turner, the rush
and, like that, beautifully illustrated in color by | of admiration and veneration that came when those
Miss E. Fortesque Brickdale. The text of the golden visions were exhibited in 1906, could never
poems is that of their first publication, with some have been had not they been protected from the light
exceptions referred to in a “Publishers' Note.” for so many years: then, suddenly, to reveal their
“Saul” is omitted, as it was included in the above- splendor.” Turner's works in general have lost some
mentioned companion volume. The book is an ad part of their first brightness of tint, as this unrolling
mirable pocket-volume, leather-bound and free from of the Ruskin collection proved. The fifty colored
stiffness. The ten illustrations catch the spirit of the plates in the book, chiefly of paintings in the Tate
poems, and exhibit skill and taste.
and National galleries, are splendid examples of such
Tennyson's “In Memoriam "and “The Princess," illustration, and not lacking in Turner character.
in type that is bold but not too bold, and provided istics.
with eight graceful pictures in tint by Mr. Frederick Little more than a year has passed since the death
Simpson Coburn, are published by the Putnams in of Winslow Homer, but it has sufficed for the prepar-
two volumes — a volume to each of the poems — ation of a masterly study of the great artist and his
sold separately. Introductory matter has been work from the scholarly pen of Mr. William Howe
selected from Mr. Stopford A. Brooke's “ Ten-| Downes. “ The Life and Work of Winslow Homer,"
nyson : His Art and Relation to Modern Life,” and published by the Houghton Mifflin Co., is a book of
Mrs. Elisabeth Luther Cary's “ Tennyson: His / generous dimensions, as it had need to be for the


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adequate portrayal of one whose services to Amer the subsidiary arts of sculpture and painting and glass-
ican art are not to be briefly or hurriedly estimated. staining. Fifty-one illustrations, four of them in
One is impressed, in reading about Homer and in color from paintings by Mr. Stafford Leake, adorn
scanning his pictures, even in greatly reduced the book and help to make clear the author's descrip-
reproduction, with the fidelity of his brush to the tions and comments; and a map showing the route
thing painted ; also with his mastery of the sea as he followed is also added. With its many excel.
a fertile subject for his art. Of the abundant lent features the book is one to delight the student
fruit of his industry the book reproduces, in black of cathedral architecture as well as the Italy-
and white, many examples, besides giving various seeking traveller.
portraits and views that appropriately belong to such “Art in France," by Louis Hourticq, is the lat-
a biography. Appended lists of Homer's paintings, est volume in the “ Ars Una” series, published in
both in oil and water-color, are provided, with an America by Messrs. Charles Scribner's Sons. Mon-
attempt at chronological arrangement, and biblio sieur Hourticq, who is Inspector of Fine Arts for the
graphy and index follow. Mr. Downes has given city of Paris, gives us for the first time a history of
us what may well be considered the most important French art treated as a whole; he divides his sub-
artist-biography of the season.
ject into periods, and takes up architecture, sculpture,
The Anglo-Welsh artist, Mr. Frank Brangwyn, painting, and the lesser representative arts, in their
has already, in the first forty-three years of his life, development and inter-relation through the centuries
accomplished so much that is of high excellence as from their origin down to the present day. The
to justify a detailed study of his work, fully illus book is a multum in parvo of compact scholarship;
trated in both color-plates and 'half-tone reproduc- it is surprising how much of really essential detail
tions, from the hand of Mr. Walter Shaw-Sparrow. is packed into its less than five hundred pages. Yet
“Frank Brangwyn and his Work” (Dana Estes & facts are so linked by comparison, and the whole
Co.) is a handsome volume of quarto size, giving treatment so clarified by general ideas, that the nar-
in considerable detail an appreciative survey of the rative holds the interest well; it reveals its Gallic
artist's varied handiwork as painter, etcher, deco- origin by its lightness and grace. The English trans-
rator, designer of household furniture and of stained lation is fairly satisfactory; gallicisms and misprints
glass, and, in short, as master of brush and pencil are happily rare. The illustrations, numbering
or other implement of his craft in the production of nearly a thousand, including four full-page plates in
things beautiful; for Mr. Brangwyn appears to be as color, are a history of art in themselves, and make
many-sided as any of the great masters of mediæval one wish that the work could also be published in a
times. His wandering and eventful life, too, is library quarto. Small as they are, however, they
sketched by Mr. Shaw-Sparrow, making the book an are clear and well printed; one only regrets the ne-
interesting narrative apart from its special appeal to cessity of the heavy clay-sized paper. Type and
art-lovers. Classified lists of Mr. Brangwyn's paint presswork are excellent, and the book is strongly
ings, sketches, and etchings are appended, as is also and flexibly bound. Full bibliographies complete
a bibliography of writings by and about him; and its usefulness for the student, and an index enables
an index completes the volume. The difficulty of the tourist to use the manual (which will go readily
reproducing on the page of a book any large painting | into his coat pocket) as a companion to his guide-
is felt by both author and reader; but at least these book, coördinating his impressions and his knowledge
plates convey a hint of that in the artist's work which as he travels through France.
has been called by a French critic “a something
intensely vivid, a something glowing and irradiating
MISCELLANEOUS HOLIDAY BOOKS.
that delights the eye.”
Gardens become almost things of life and sense,
Architecture, so far above the merely imitative in a human way, as seen and studied in Miss
arts in the esteem of many — Sir Francis Palgrave Hildegarde Hawthorne's strikingly beautiful vol-
among them -- as to merit the rank of queen, can- | ume, “ The Lure of the Garden," which the Cen-
not complain of any lack of reverence paid to her tury Co. issues with half a hundred illustrations,
in Mr. T. Francis Bumpus's octavo volume, “The many in color, by Mr. Maxfield Parrish, Mr. Jules
Cathedrals of Central Italy,” issued in this country Guérin, Mr. Sigismond de Ivanowski, and other
by Messrs James Pott & Co. The first chapter, cov artists. That the granddaughter of the author of
ering seventy-eight pages, traces the author's itiner “Mosses from an Old Manse" should write with
ary from Paris to Genoa, and thence, through Pisa, sympathy and enthusiasm about old gardens, the
Siena, Orvieto, Viterbo, Toscanella, Rome, Narni, habits of flowers, the literature of gardens, the
Spoleto, Assisi, Perugia, Cortona, Arezzo, Florence, social side of gardens, and gardens and gossips, is
Prato, Pistoja, and Lucca, back into France. Brief not surprising. Every gardener of experience will
description of the famous cathedrals visited is sup read with appreciation the chapter on “ Some Gar-
plemented with numerous illustrations. More de- den Vices," a chapter that includes also some vices
tailed studies follow in the remaining six chapters, of the garden's neighbors. Apt selections from
which treat of Romanesque architecture as illus- the poets of gardening are interspersed. The pic.
trated by certain of the cathedrals visited, of Gothic / tures, varying in style and degree of idealism or
architecture as exemplified in certain others, and of I realism, according to the artist, are all that could


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be desired as accompaniment to the reading matter. “Scottish Life and Character, in Anecdote and
The fragrance of summer is in the book, and also Story” (Lippincott), compiled by Mr. William
just a taste of the tonic of winter in a short chapter | Harvey, and illustrated in color by Mr. Erskine
entitled “Winter Wonder.” The volume is appro Nicol and others, contains a greater number and
priately bound and boxed.
variety of amusing anecdotes than any book of its
The pleasures of gardening are partly anticipa kind we have seen, though the supply of such Scot-
tory; and so in the winter one can read garden books tish jest-books, beginning with the unexcelled “Rem-
and seed catalogues, and thus possess bis soul in iniscences” of Dean Ramsay, is far from scanty.
patience until spring opens and planting begins. Under such alluring chapter-headings as “Gown
One of the latest and most alluring of these literary and Bands,” “Desk and Tuning Fork,” “ Plate and
substitutes for the real thing is Miss Lena May Ladle,” “The Bailie,” “ The Doctor,” and “The
McCauley's eye-delighting volume, “ The Joy of Bairns,” are grouped stories innumerable, not all of
Gardens” (Rand-McNally), which is profusely illus- them irresistibly funny, but all having the true Scot-
trated, both in color and in black and white. The tish flavor, and enjoyable in the reading if not taken
camera has been effectively used in securing views in too liberal doses. Their sources, whether real
of many famous gardens, both in this country | life or books, are not indicated; nor does it much
and in Europe. Miss McCauley takes her readers matter so long as staleness is avoided. The cheerful-
through the year, dwelling on the horticultural joys hued pictures, sixteen in number, speak of Scotland
belonging to each month. In her chapter on “The in every line, though bearing only a general relation
Delights of Faith” occurs the following cryptic utter to the accompanying text.
ance : “A corner in the library devoted to books of Two pleasing little volumes of poetic and artis-
magic may be counted among the things needful to tic charm are issued by Dana Estes & Co. “A
get in tune with gardens." And here is a warning: | Flower Anthology,” selected and illustrated by Mr.
“More gardens have been ruined by careless sprink Alfred Rawlings, contains favorite passages from the
lers than by a dry spell.” There is instruction and earlier and the Victorian poets, interspersed with re-
suggestion as well as recreation in Miss McCauley's productions of water-color drawings, each presenting
well-considered chapters.
in its native habitat the flower or flowers sung by the
Two collections of real love affairs, told from poet on an adjacent page. It is not the too familiar
supposedly trustworthy records, greet this year the flower-painting of the amateur that Mr. Rawlings
seeker after something a little more substantial than gives us, but bits of rural beauty to which the wood
fiction and a little less solid than history. Mr. | anemone, the snowdrop, the primrose and the peri-
Richard Le Gallienne presents in very readable and winkle, and others, contribute their modest charm.
attractive form “The Loves of the Poets ” (Baker & The difficulties of colored illustration have not been
Taylor Co.), comprising the Brownings perhaps entirely overcome, but they have been very credit-
already too publicly known love story, the affair ably contended against. “The Scholar Gypsy" and
between Chopin and George Sand, Michael Angelo's “Thyrsis,” by Matthew Arnold, with ten colored
and Vittoria Colonna's impassioned friendship, the pictures (reproductions, by the four-color process,
attachment that led to the marriage of Rossetti and of water-colors from the brush of Mr. W. Russell
Elizabeth Siddal, Mary Stuart's minor love affair Flint), make up the other book referred to. The de-
with the unheroic Pierre Chastelard, and some leg- signs are appropriate, and their execution all that
endary attachments of sundry early poets, with con could be expected. Each volume is clearly printed
cluding remarks on the relative charms of dark and on the best of paper, and bound in limp cloth, or,
fair ladies. Portraits, ornamental page-borders, if one prefers, in velvet calf.
cream-tinted paper, and excellent type combine to Miss Helen Archibald Clarke has chosen for her
render “The Loves of the Poets" a book not easily to this year's volume of literary anecdote and disquisi-
be passed by. “Great Love Stories of the Theatre " , tion, with appropriate accompaniment of photo-en-
(Duffield), by Mr. Charles W. Collins, is a much graving, a promising theme, “The Poet's New En-
larger work, with fuller quotation from more or gland.” Nor does the title page arouse expectations
less authentic sources. From the early days of the that are not fulfilled. Five generous chapters dwell
Restoration down to the beginning of the Victorian at length on the inspiration received by our New
reign we have a number of famous love affairs, chiefly England poets from nature, from local history and
of an unedifying or even disastrous issue, such as legend, from current thought and sentiment, from
that between Nell Gwyn and Charles II.; or that their friendships, and from other sources that fed
between Maurice de Saxe and the pretty soubrette, their genius and made their verse characteristic of
Justine Favart; or Adrienne Lecouvreur's too faith- their time and place. Miss Clarke's method is some-
ful devotion to the same unscrupulous Maurice; or | what rambling, but for that reason the more inclusive.
the follies of “Becky” Wells; or Dora Jordan's Her pages are filled with literary chat and frequent
ill-requited devotion to the Duke of Clarence. These quotations, the latter being drawn with no sparing
and other stories, to the number of twelve, are hand from the poets most familiar and dear to every
well and, so far as may be, authoritatively told, lover of what is best in American literature. The
with accompanying portraits of eight of the chief numerous illustrations include a colored frontispiece
characters.
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Baker & Taylor Co. have issued the book in hand pieces vellum wrappers, separate slide-cases for each
some form, beautifully printed, bound, and boxed. I volume — such are the more visible and material
The Laird & Lee series of English dictionaries, | attractions of the series.
based in part on the lexicographical labors of Noah Feminine grace and charm and piquancy are
Webster, and bearing his name on the title page, have portrayed in divers aspects and attitudes by Mr.
the merit of serviceability and inexpensiveness. The C. Coles Phillips in his collection of colored draw-
latest addition to this series is “Webster's New ings entitled “ A Gallery of Girls,” and published in
Standard American Dictionary of the English Lan quarto form by the Century Co. Many of the plates
guage,” with “encyclopedic features,” twenty-three have appeared on the covers of late numbers of
full-page plates, and two thousand text illustrations, “Life,” to the admiration of all beholders, while
compiled and edited by Mr. E. T. Roe, and printed others have won favor elsewhere. There are forty
on excellent paper, in bold, clear type. The binding of these full-page studies of feminine beauty, some
is flexible, the back strong and at the same time lim- of them with the now familiar peculiarity of a flat
ber. Portraits illustrating various nationalities meet | background undistinguishable from the girl's dress,
the eye; under “Japanese," for instance, is given a thus leaving the imagination considerable freedom
small picture of Prince Ito, with brief description and of play in tracing the lines of the figure. Ingenuity
dates of birth and death. Further on, the word “sil | and cleverness are revealed in the legends at the bot-
houette” is both derived from the niggardly. French tom of the plates — “Arms and the Man,” “Such
minister of finance of that name and illustrated Stuff as Dreams Are Made On,” “Long Distance
by a good profile likeness in black of Benjamin Lends Enchantment,” “Survival of the Fittest,” etc.
Franklin. Synonyms and antonyms are occasionally The left-hand pages of the book have smaller but
given. Among the synonyms of balloon we find equally good drawings in black and white.
“ aëroplane," and as an antonym “parachute” – Love, “the despair of philosophers and sages, the
which is open to criticism. For handiness, inexpen- rapture of poets, the confusion of cynics, and the
siveness, and compactness, this dictionary is excel warrior's defeat,” forms the subject of the extracts,
lent. Of course the Laird & Lee so-called Webster's chiefly in verse, collected and arranged by Miss
dictionaries are not to be confused with the famous Jennie Day Haines, and published under the title,
Webster dictionaries published by the Merriams of “The Book of Love," by George W. Jacobs & Co.
Springfield, Mass., ever since our grandfathers were From Shakespeare and John Lyly to Myrtle Reed
schoolboys.
and Miss Marie Corelli, the selections cover a range
Mr. Frank Finn's generously illustrated book, to suit all tastes. Cupids in various airy attitudes
“ The Wild Beasts of the World” (Stokes) has adorn the margins, and a pretty face encircled by cu-
pages of so ample dimensions as to make possible pids forms the frontispiece. Love of a different sort,
the drawing of animal figures and jungle scenes on a maternal affection this time, serves as the theme of
sufficiently large scale for realistic effect. One hun a companion volume from the same publishing house.
dred colored illustrations by Mr. Louis Sargent, and “Mother Love: A Book of the Heart” is compiled
other artists accompany the descriptive matter, which by Miss Ina Russell Warren, and furnished with deco-
embraces about four hundred of the chief untamed rations by Miss Jane Allen Boyer. Blank pages for
mammals of the world. These pictures are in vivid recording “events in baby's life" follow the selec-
hues and of striking appearance, sure to attract tions. Taste and skill have combined in the mak-
young naturalists and, indeed, all young folk of noring of these two color-books, each of which has an
mal curiosity and with a passion for the animate ornamental binding and a decorated box.
wonders of forest and plain. The descriptive mat The present growing interest in Celtic lore, es-
ter is brief and general enough not to weary the pecially in such remnants of Celtic manners and cus-
unscientific person, and is printed in type of an in- toms and speech and legend as are to be found in
viting largeness and clearness. The book is a con Ireland and in the highlands of Scotland, gives time-
tribution to the popular nature-study whose devo | liness to Mr. T. W. Rolleston's “Myths and Legends
tees are daily increasing in number.
of the Celtic Race” (Crowell), copiously illustrated
In a new series appropriately named “The by Mr. Stephen Reid and others. The author holds
Watteau Library” (Holt) appear three exquisite | that the term “Anglo-Saxon” as applied to the
specimens of artistic book-making, to be followed by great mass of English and Americans is incorrect
others. “Five Types," by Mr. G. K. Chesterton, and misleading. We are Anglo-Celts even more
includes his essays on “The Optimism of Byron,” than we are Anglo-Saxons; for do not the statistics
“Pope and the Art of Satire,” “Stevenson,” of relative "nigresence” prove it? At any rate,
“Rostand,” and “Charles II.” In a selection whether one's blood be nine-tenths Celtic and one
from M. Maeterlinck's works are comprised “The tenth something else, or the reverse, or even wholly
Inner Beauty," which gives its name to the little without Celtic admixture, one cannot turn Mr.
book, “Silence," and "The Invisible Goodness.” Rolleston's pages without adıniring the evidences of
The third number, entitled “Gardens and Friend research and literary skill there displayed. The
ship,” contains eight of Bacon's essays, including Celtic legends are presented in a form inviting to
those designated on the cover. Handmade paper, readers, with a sufficiency of historical and anti-
excellent print, photogravure head-pieces and tail. I quarian commentary. The bibliography of the sub-


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ject is not entered into, but a full glossary and traits and imaginative compositions. Excellent print
index (combined), with a brief but welcome guide and binding are features in the mechanical equip-
to pronunciation, follow the reading matter. The ment of the work, which is issued by the John C.
pictures take the form of full-page plates, and the Winston Co.
binding of the book is of elaborate and pleasing “I would credit a man with a great many other
design.
virtues if he surprised me with an apt quotation
The inimitable Peter Pan, after delighting the from Horace in reply to my question as to the state
theatre-going public, now reappears, with many new of the market or the condition of crops." There
tricks and drolleries and prodigious exploits, to speaks the lover of old authors, in his preface to a
amuse the larger world of book-readers of all de handy volume that furtber attests his passion.
grees of youthfulness, from six to sixty, or beyond. “The Friendship of Books," edited by Mr. Temple
"Peter and Wendy" is the title of Mr. Barrie's new Scott, draws upon the standard authors who have ex-
book; which is fitly illustrated with graceful draw. pressed themselves in praise of reading, but searches
ings by Mr. F. D. Bedford, while large print, paper | out many passages unfamiliar to most of us, and also
of fine quality, and ornamental binding unite to give lays under contribution a number of later authors,
a festive aspect to this excellent holiday diversion. | such as Mr. Gerald Stanley Lee, Mr. Richard Le
Mr. Barrie has a much freer hand and more spacious Gallienne, Mr. Andrew Lang, and Mr. Charles
scene in “ Peter and Wendy” than in the play of Ferguson. Drawings, of quaint and pleasing design,
“ Peter Pan.” The plot, if one may so call the are contributed by Mr. Harold Nelson, and nothing
string of diverting phantasies that fill the book, is | is lacking to render the book's exterior worthy of its
more fully elaborated, and the ending is more satis-well-chosen contents. (Macmillan.)
factory. In short, Neverland is made as real and Four of the late Ottilie A. Liljencrantz's Norse
as irresistibly inviting as heart of child could desire. | tales, “ A Viking's Love,” “ The Hostage,” “As the
(Charles Scribner's Sons.)
Norns Weave,” and “How Thor Recovered his Ham-
Since man never is, but always to be, blest, the | mer,” are gathered into a volume and published un-
secret of happiness has a perennial fascination for der the title “A Viking's Love, and Other Tales of
him; and once more the interpretation of the mys- the North,” by Messrs. A. C. McClurg & Co. The
tery is attempted, this time by the Rev. Hugh Black untimely death, little more than a year ago, of the
in his attractive volume (uniform with others in the gifted writer of these stories receives appropriate
same author's series) entitled “Happiness” (Revell). mention in a preliminary note on her education and
Before writing on "The Secret of Happiness” and her literary tastes and achievements. Known as the
“The Art of Happiness," he discourses on “The author of “The Thrall of Leif the Lucky" and "The
Right to Happiness," "The Duty of Happiness," and Ward of King Canute,” Miss Liljencrantz will be
“ The Sources of Happiness," while the book con- read with pleasure in her less elaborate essays in
cludes with remarks on the grades of, the shadow on, fiction. Her portrait at the head of the sketch above
the foes of, and the heart of, happiness. Happiness referred to, a frontispiece illustration to one of the
in most of its aspects is thus presented to view by one tales, and a pale blue decorative border to the pages,
whose writings never lack in suggestiveness and constitute the chief ornamental features of the book.
moral uplift. A delicately tinted scroll-border sets The binding is also ornamented, and the book is
off each page, the binding is in blue and gilt, and a appropriately boxed. It is a capital gift book for
box protects the volume from injury.
story-readers.
The mosaic pattern of Mr. Wayne Whipple's two Friendship has moved the poet to sing far less
volume “ Story-Life of Washington,” which is fur- often than love; but that it has thus moved him
ther described as “a life-history in five hundred true becomes amply evident in Mr. John R. Howard's
stories, selected from original sources and fitted to anthology entitled “Poems of Friendship,” which
gether in order, with reproductions of paintings, en the Crowell Company issues in beautiful form with
gravings, and manuscripts,” gives it a rather novel an appropriate frontispiece of Mr. C. F. Neagle's
interest as well as an unusual appearance. We have drawing and other artistic embellishments. Industry
a composite photograph, or, more accurately, a com and taste have been used by Mr. Howard in making
posite moving-picture, relieved of the pronounced up his three hundred pages of excellent selections.
distortions of any single portrait, and emphasizing Introduction and indexes are supplied. From the.
the best features common to them all. The authori. same house, and in the same style, comes another
ties quoted are innumerable, and of varied charac | book of selected poems, but on a more general and
ter. A passage from Mrs. Hugh Fraser's “In the inclusive theme. “On Life's Highway" is the title,
Shadow of the Lord” stands next to one from and the volume is further described as “a book for
Washington's “Journal," and that next to an extract graduates who have received their equipment and
from Washington Irving. With praiseworthy care | are to begin their journey.” But it is a book for all
the source of each selection is accurately given at its readers who hold with Matthew Arnold that poetry
end. The same compiler's "Story-Life of Lincoln” is the criticism of life.
has already broken the way for and perfected the A novel idea is illustrated in “Our New Home:
method of this other “story-life." The numerous How We Plan to Build It” (Reilly & Britton Co.),
illustrations from many sources comprise both por- | with drawings in color by Miss Louise Perrett, and


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many interspersed blank pages for pen or pencil ex ration of a pleasing and popular play. Mr. Parker
ercise on the part of the reader. “Reader," how is of course able to work out his fourfold love-story,
ever, is the wrong word here, for the book is to be with all its amusing and eccentric characters, in much
written by its purchaser, being, as announced on the greater detail in the story than in the play. The
title-page," a book for sketches, ideas, and sugges- inimitable Sir Peter Antrobus, with his ejacula-
tions.” Every young couple and some older ones tory “Gobblesmysoul,” the sweetly captivating
hope one day to build a home, and this scrap-book Marjolaine, the resolute Mrs. Poskett with her mat-
plan will help them to do it to their satisfaction. The rimonial designs upon Sir Peter, the hunchback
illustrations are pleasing bits of interior and exterior violinist and the love-lorn Barbara Pennymint, the
domesticity, suggestive and helpful, while page conquering Jack Sayle, the Reverend Doctor Jacob
headings are further provided to ensure system and Sternroyd, and the rest of the highly diverting den-
method in the ordering of original or selected mat- izens of Pomander Walk, all are made to walk and
ter. The binding is strong, and in all respects the talk and gossip and make love, or watch others make
volume serves both use and beauty.
love, in a very human and irresistible fashion. The
One of the most appropriate gift-books of the sea illustrator, furthermore, has caught the spirit of the
son is “The Christmas City: Bethlehem across the story and has interpreted its characters in a most
Ages” (Sturgis & Walton Co.), by Dr. Lewis Gaston satisfactory manner. A colored frontispiece and a
Leary, an orientalist of long residence and extended | pictured cover, with other decorative features, pro-
travels in the East, having first-hand acquaintance claim this a book for the festive season.
with the people and the customs of the Holy Land, Professor Percival Lowell's “Soul of the Far
and master of a vivid and graceful style of narra | East," written and first published before its astron-
tion. The Bethlehem of Jacob's time, the Bethlehem omer-author had become more interested in the
of the New Testament, and the Bethlehem of later Martians than in the Terrestrials (whether Oriental
days, are recalled by appropriate bits of incident | or Occidental), will not soon lose its charm of
and description. The suggestive chapter headings, mingled humor, acuteness of observation, grace of
such as “The Grave by the Roadside,” “The Girl style, and warm human interest. Its fine qualities
from beyond Jordan,” “The Boy who was to be fully justify the issue of a new edition (Macmillan)
King," "The Night of Nights," and "The Story of the with thirty-two illustrations, six of which are repro-
Stable," epitomize the book's contents, while well- ductions of hitherto unpublished prints in the col-
chosen illustrations, from famous paintings and from lection of the late John La Farge, while others are
photographs, further emphasize the meaning and from Mr. Tyndale's “Japan and the Japanese,” still
purpose of the book. The frontispiece reproduces others from Mrs. Fraser's “A Diplomat's Wife in
in color “The Holy Night” of Zenisek — on a very Japan,” and the remainder from photographs taken
small scale, it is true. The local views are perhaps by the author.
more satisfactory. The cover design is apt as well Mr. Burges Johnson's rollicking rhymes wed
as artistic, and the print and paper are excellent. themselves well to his merry conceits. A collection
The mythology of astronomy is entertainingly of these oddities in verse is published under the title
treated by Mr. William Tyler Olcott in his “Star “Bashful Ballads” by the Harpers. Why bashful?
Lore of All Ages” (Putnam), which forms a fitting it may be asked. For answer see the learned poet's
sequel to the same author's “Field Book of the derivation of the word in his scholarly preface.
Stars” and “In Starland with a Three-inch Tele In his “ Flight of the Clamoplane” the reader will
scope.” Diagrams of the chief constellations are learn to whom first honors in aviation are really
given, with outline drawings of the mythological due. Notwithstanding the hard hit at book-reviewers
figures they are supposed to represent; and further in “Taste for Literature,” no discerning and honest
illustrative material has been drawn from famous member of the guild can withhold his commenda-
paintings and works of sculpture, such as Watts's tion from these amusing ballads. Four pictures of
Ganymede, the Farnese Hercules, Veronese's “Rape a humorous character are provided, while colored
of Europa,” and so on. Both classic and oriental drawings adorn the outside and inside of the cover.
mythology are made to contribute to the book's ful “Eve's place among the women of the Bible is
ness of information, and considerable attention is second to no other,” is the indisputable assertion of
given to the philology of the subject. A volume of the Rev. John White Chadwick in his excellent
four hundred and fifty closely-printed pages is thus chapter on our first ancestress in that well-conceived
placed at the disposal of the myth-loving student of and well-written volume, “Women of the Bible,"
astronomy. In its wealth of illustration and its ornate which the Harpers bring out this year in a new
binding the book presents an appearance in harmony | edition with illustrations by Mr. Frank V. Dumond.
with the season.
Twelve biblical female characters are treated each
The novelization of dramas seems trying, in these by an eminent authority, and each is also ideally
latter days, to keep pace with the dramatization of presented in portraiture by Mr. Dumond, while Mr.
novels. “ Pomander Walk” (Lane), by Mr. Louis J. G. Kitchell's “Composite Madonna" is added as
N. Parker, takes its place beside Mr. Barrie’s “Peter frontispiece. The chapters are brief and the typog-
and Wendy” as a highly successful narrative elabo- | raphy is clear and open.


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SCOUTING FOR LIGHT HORSE HARRY: A Story of the
THE SEASON'S BOOKS FOR THE Young.
Revolution. By John Preston True. Illustrated,
The following is a list of all children's books published
12mo. Little, Brown & Co. $1.50.
during the present season and received at the office of
THE CAVE OF GOLD: A Story of California in 1849.
By Everett McNeill.
THE DIAL up to the time of going to press with this
Illustrated, 12mo. E. P.
Dutton & Co. $1.50.
issue. It is believed that this classified list will com-
YOUNG CRUSOES OF THE SKY: The Adventures of
mend itself to Holiday purchasers as a convenient and
Three Boys in a Runaway Balloon. By F. Lovell
trustworthy guide to the juvenile books for the season Coombs. Illustrated, 12mo. Century Co. $1.50.
of 1911.
WITH THE FLAG IN PANAMA: A Story of the Building
of the Panama Canal. By Hugh C. Weir. Illus-
Stories for Boys Especially.
trated, 8vo. W. A. Wilde Co. $1.50.
TEAM MATES: A Story of School and Football. By Dick AMONG THE SEMINOLES. By A. W. Dimock.
Ralph Henry Barbour. Illustrated. 12mo. Century Illustrated from photographs, 12mo. F. A. Stokes
Co. $1.50.
Co. $1.50.
FOR YARDLEY: A Story of Track and Field. By SEEING THE WORLD: The Adventures of a Tyrolese
Ralph Henry Barbour. Illustrated, 12mo. D. Ap-| Goatherd. By Ascott R. Hope. Illustrated in color,
pleton & Co. $1.50.
8vo. Dana Estes & Co. $1.50.
SANDY SAWYER, SOPHOMORE. By Ralph D. Paine. BROTHER SCOUTS. By John Finnemore. Illustrated,
Illustrated, 12mo. Charles Scribner's Sons. $1.50. 12mo. J. B. Lippincott Co. $1.50.
THE STROKE OAR: A Story of College Boating. By THE CRUISE OF THE “KINGFISHER'): A Tale of Deep
Ralph D. Paine. Illustrated, 12mo. Charles Scrib Sea Adventure. By H. De Vere Stacpoole. Illus-
ner's Sons. $1.50.
trated, 12mo. Duffield & Co. $1.50.
THE CHAMPION OF THE REGIMENT: A Story of the BARTLEY, FRESHMAN PITCHER. By William Heyliger.
Siege of Yorktown. By Everett T. Tomlinson. Il Illustrated, 12mo. D. Appleton & Co. $1.25 net.
lustrated, 12mo. Houghton Mifflin Co. $1.50.
THE LIKABLE CHAP: A Story of “Prep' School
BILLY: His SUMMER AWAKENING. A Camping Story. Life. By Henry McHarg Davenport. Illustrated,
By Charles Keen Taylor. Illustrated, 12mo. Little, 12mo. Sturgis & Walton Co. $1.20 net.
Brown & Co. $1.50.
Two BOYS IN A GYROCAR: The Story of a New York
BOB KNIGHT'S DIARY ON A FARM, with Sketches by
to Paris Motor Race. By Kenneth Kenneth-Brown.
Bob. By Charlotte Curtis Smith. Illustrated, 8vo. Illustrated, 12mo. Houghton Miffin Co. $1.20 net.
E. P. Dutton & Co. $1.50.
THE ADVENTURES OF BOBBY ORDE. By Stewart Ed-
OLD RYERSON: A Story of College Boat Racing. By
ward White. Illustrated, 12mo. Doubleday, Page
Walter Camp. Illustrated, 12mo. D. Appleton &
& Co. $1.20 net.
Co. $1.50.
ROGER PAULDING, APPRENTICE SEAMAN. By Com-
DAVID CROCKETT, SCOUT: The True Story of the De-
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fenders of the Alamo. By Charles Fletcher Allen.
Penn Publishing Co. '$1.20 net.
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THE YOUNG TIMBER CRUISERS; or, Fighting the Spruce
Co. $1.50.
Pirates. By Hugh Pendexter. Illustrated, ilmo.
ENSIGN RALPH OSBORNE: His Trials and Triumphs
Small, Maynard & Co. $1.20 net.
in a Battleship Engine Room. By Commander E. C.
THE SULTAN'S RIVAL. By Bradley Gilman, author of
Beach, U. S. N. Illustrated, 12mo. W. A. Wilde
"The Son of the Desert." "Illustrated, 12mo.
Co. $1.50.
Small, Maynard & Co. $1.20 net.
FRESHMAN DORN, PITCHER. By Leslie W. Quirk,
THE WRECKING MASTER: A Story of the Florida Reef.
author of “Baby Elton, Quarterback.” Illustrated,
By Ralph D. Paine. Illustrated, 12mo. Charles
12mo. Century Co. $1.50.
Scribner's Sons. $1.25.
THE SCOUTS OF THE VALLEY: A Story of Wyoming
A WEST POINT LIEUTENANT. By Captain Paul B.
and the Chemung. By Joseph A. Altsheler. Illus-
Malone, U. S. A. Illustrated, 12mo. Penn Publish-
trated, 12mo. D. Appleton & Co. $1.50.
ing Co. $1.25.
THE QUEST OF THE FOUR: A Story of the Comanches
BOY SCOUTS IN THE MAINE Woods. By James Otis.
and Buena Vista. By Joseph A. Altsheler. Illus-
trated in color, 12mo. D. Appleton & Co. $1.50.
Illustrated, 12mo. T. Y. Crowell & Co. $1.25.
GREAT BEAR ISLAND: A Story of Adventure and Dis-
BILLY TOMORROW STANDS THE TEST. By Sarah Pratt
covery. By Arthur E. McFarlane. Illustrated,
Carr. Illustrated, 12mo. A. C. McClurg & Co.
12mo. Little, Brown & Co. $1.50.
$1.25.
THE FOREST CASTAWAYS: Adventure in the Maine
A GRADUATE Coach: A Football Story. By T. Trux-
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12mo. Century Co. $1.50.
$1.25.
THE OAK STREET Boys' CLUB. By Warren L. Eldred. THE LAST LAP: A Story of School and Athletics. By
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Alden Arthur Knipe. Illustrated, 12mo. Harper &
$1.50.
Brothers. $1.25.
JACKSON AND HIS HENLEY FRIENDS. By Frank E.
THE BOY SCOUTS OF BIRCHBARK ISLAND. By Rupert
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Sargent Holland. Illustrated in color, etc., 12mo.
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THE AEROPLANE AT SILVER Fox Farm. By James CHASED ACROSS THE PAMPAS; or, American Boys in
Otis, author of “The Wireless Station at Silver Fox
Argentina and Homeward Bound. By Edward
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$1.50.
Shepard Co. $1.25.
Four BOYS IN THE YOSEMITE. By Everett T. Tomlin The Night RIDERS OF CAVE KNOB: A Story of Ken-
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CIRCLE K; OR, FIGHTING FOR THE FLOCK: A Story of THE SCHOOL TEAM ON THE DIAMOND. By John Pres-
Western Ranch Life. By Edwin L. Sabin. Illus cott Earl. Illustrated, 12mo. Penn Publishing Co.
trated, 8vo. T. Y. Crowell & Co. $1.50.
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YOUNG ALASKANS ON THE TRAIL: The Adventures of THE FLYING BOYS IN THE SKY. By Edward S. Ellis.
Three Boys in Alaska. By Emerson Hough. Illus Illustrated, 12mo. John C. Winston Co. 60 cts.
trated, 12mo. Harper & Brothers. $1.25.
TOMMY's MONEY; Adventures in New York and Else-
WINNING THE JUNIOR CUP; or, The Honor of Stub where. By John R. Corywell. Illustrated, 12mo.
Barrows. By Norman Brainerd. Illustrated, 12mo. Harper & Brothers. 60 cts.
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THE FLYING BOYS TO THE RESCUE. By Edward S.
OLD BEN: The Friend of Tobey Tyler and Mr. Stubbs' Ellis. Illustrated, 12mo. John C. Winston Co.
Brother. By James Otis. Illustrated, 12mo. Har. 60 cts.
per & Brothers. $1.25.
BEN STONE AT OAKDALE. By Morgan Scott. Illus-
THE MINUTE BOYS OF PHILADELPHIA: A Story of the trated, 12mo. Hurst & Co. 60 cts.
Revolution. By James Otis. Illustrated, 12mo. THE CAMP ON INDIAN ISLAND. By James Otis. Dlus-
Dana Estes & Co. $1.25.
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THE YOUNG LION HUNTER. By Zane Grey. Illus THE BOY SCOUTS OF THE EAGLE PATROL. By Lieut.
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Howard Payson. Illustrated, 12mo. Hurst & Co.
ON THE CINDER PATH; or, Archie Hartley's First Year
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THE MOTOR RANGERS' LOST MINE. By Marvin West.
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THE WHITE SENECA: The Story of a Boy's Captivity
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lustrated, 12mo. E. P. Dutton & Co. $1.25 net.
THE DREADNAUGHT BOYS ON BATTLE PRACTICE. By
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THE BORDER BOYS ON THE TRAIL. By Fremont B.
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A U. S. MIDSHIPMAN IN JAPAN. By Lieut. Command-
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THE SCOUT OF PEA RIDGE: A Story of the Civil War. FAIRMOUNT GIRLS IN SCHOOL AND CAMP. By Etta
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THE PECKS IN CAMP. By Albertus T. Dudley. Illus-
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THE YOUNG CONTINENTALS AT TRENTON. By Robert
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THE JESTER OF ST. TIMOTHY'S: A Story of “Prep”.
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MADGE AT CAMP WELLES; or, Summer Holidays on a
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Six GIRLS AND BETTY. By Marion Ames Taggart. Il-
THE YELLOW MAGNET; or, Attracted by Gold. By
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Edwin J. Houston. Illustrated, 12mo. "Young
WHEN MARGARET WAS A FRESHMAN. By Elizabeth
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MOCCO, AN INDIAN Boy: The Story of an Apache In-
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THE FIRST CRUISER OUT: A Cuban War Story; and FRIENDS IN THE END: A Story of the New Hampshire
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Faith Avery. 12mo. Henry Holt & Co. $1.25 net.
THE AIRSHIP Boys SERIES. By H. L. Sayler. New
JUST PATTY: A Sequel to “When Patty Went to
volumes: The Airship Boys in Finance, or The College." By Jean Webster. Illustrated, 12mo.
Flight of the Flying Cow; and The Airship Boys'
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Ocean Flyer, or New York to London in Twelve A SOPHOMORE CO-ED. By Alice Louise Lee. Mus-
Hours. Each illustrated, 12mo. Reilly & Britton | trated, 12mo. Penn Publishing Co. $1.20 net.
Co. Per volume, $1.
BETTY WALES DECIDES. By Margaret Warde. The
THE AEROPLANE Boys SERIES. By Ashton Lamar. concluding volume of the famous "Betty Wales
New titles: A Cruise in the Sky, or The Legend of Books." Illustrated, 12mo. Penn Publishing Co.
the Great Pink Pearl; and Battling the Big Horn, $1.25.
or The Aeroplane in the Rockies. Each illustrated, HELEN GRANT'S HARVEST YEAR. By Amanda M.
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THE RAMBLER CLUB ON CIRCLE T. RANCH. By W. ard Co. $1.25.
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FRANK ARMSTRONG'S VACATION. By Matthew M. GLENLOCH GIRLS' CLUB. By Grace M. Remick. Illus-
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THE RAMBLER CLUB AMONG THE LUMBERJACKS. By VICTORINE's Book. By Nina Rhoades; illustrated by
W. Crispin Sheppard; illustrated by the author. Elizabeth Withington. 12mo. Lothrop, Lee & Shep-
12mo. Penn Publishing Co. 60 cts.
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THE MISSING PEARLS; or, Little Miss Fales Goes WHEN KNIGHTS WERE BOLD. By Eva March Tappan.
West. By Emilie Benson Knipe and Alden Arthur Illustrated, 8vo. Houghton Mifflin Co. $2. net.
Knipe. With frontispiece, 12mo. Harper & Broth A HISTORY OF ENGLAND. By Rudyard Kipling and
ers. $1.25.
C. R. L. Fletcher. Illustrated in color, 8vo. Double-
PEGGY OWEN AT YORKTOWN. By Lucy Foster Madi- day, Page & Co. $1.80 net.
son. Illustrated, 12mo. Penn Publishing Co. $1.25. THE BOYS' STORY OF ZEBULON M. PIKE, Explorer of
A LITTLE PRINCESS OF THE PATIO. By Aileen Cleve the Great Southwest. Edited by Mary Gay Hum-
land Higgins. Illustrated, 12mo. Penn Publishing phreys. Illustrated, 8vo. Charles Scribner's Sons.
Co. $1.25.
$1.50 net.
HARMONY HALL: A Story for Girls. By Marion Hill. PEEPS AT OCEANIA. By Frank Fox; illustrated in
Illustrated, 12mo. Small, Maynard & Co. $1.10 net. color by Norman H. Hardy, F. and W. Wright, and
A DEAR LITTLE GIRL'S SUMMER HOLIDAYS: A Story P. F. S. Spence. Australia, New Zealand, and the
of the Seashore. By Amy E. Blanchard. Illus-
Pacific Isles are here described and illustrated. 8vo.
trated in color, 12mo. G. W. Jacobs & Co. $1 net.
Macmillan Co. $1.50 net.
THE POLLY PAGE RANCH CLUB. By Izola L. Forrester,
THE FIRST VOYAGES OF GLORIOUS MEMORY: Passages
author of "The Polly Page Yacht Club." Illus from the “Principal Navigations of Richard Hak-
trated, 12mo. G. W. Jacobs & Co. $1 net.
luyt." Selected for young people by Frank Elias;
HAPPY DAYS AT HILLSIDE. By Emily Hewitt Morse.
illustrated in color by Norman Wilkinson. 8vo.
Illustrated, 12mo. E. P. Dutton & Co. $1. net.
Macmillan Co. $1.50 net.
THE ADMIRAL'S LITTLE SECRETARY. By Elizabeth
CAPTIVE ROYAL CHILDREN: Tales, Chiefly from English
Lincoln Gould. Illustrated, 12mo. Penn Publishing
and Scottish History. By G. I, Whitham; illus-
Co. $1.
trated by A. G. Walker. 8vo. F. A. Stokes Co.
$1.50.
FELICIA'S FOLKS. By Elizabeth Lincoln Gould. Illus-
A LIFE OF GRANT, for Boys and Girls. By Warren Lee
trated, 12mo. Penn Publishing Co. $1.
PRUE'S MERRY TIMES. By Amy Brooks; illustrated
Goss. Illustrated, 8vo. T. Y. Crowell & Co. $1.50.
THE STORY OF THE ROMAN PEOPLE: An Elementary
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History of Rome. By Eva March Tappan. Illus-
Co. $1.
trated, 8vo. Houghton Mifflin Co. $1.50.
GRANDPA'S LITTLE GIRL AND Miss ABITHA. By Alice
STORIES OF THE SCOTTISH BORDER. By Mr. and Mrs.
Turner Curtis. Illustrated, 12mo. Penn Publishing
William Platt; illustrated by M. Meredith Williams.
Co. $1.
8vo. T. Y. Crowell & Co. $1.50.
DOROTHY DAINTY AT THE MOUNTAINS. By Amy
Brooks; illustrated by the author, 12mo. Lothrop,
Boys' LIFE OF EDISON. By William H. Meadowcroft.
Illustrated, 12mo. Harper & Brothers. $1.25.
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THE DAWN OF BRITISH HISTORY. By Alice Corkran.
MARJORIE'S SCHOOL Days. By Alice Turner Curtis.
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Illustrated, 12mo. Penn Publishing Co. 75 cts. net.
THE BIRTH OF ENGLAND, 449-1066. By Estelle Ross.
LETTY'S New HOME. By Helen Sherman Griffith.
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Illustrated, 12mo. Penn Publishing Co. 60 cts.
FROM CONQUEST TO CHARTER: English History from
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1066 to 1215. By Estelle Ross. Illustrated, 12mo.
Margaret Burnham. Illustrated, 12mo. Hurst & T. Y. Crowell & Co. $1.25.
Co. 50 cts.
THE AMERICAN HISTORY STORY-Book. By Albert F.
THE MOTOR MAIDS' SCHOOL Days. By Katherine
Blaisdell and Francis K. Ball. Illustrated, 12mo.
Stokes. Illustrated, 12mo. Hurst & Co. 50 cts. Little, Brown & Co. 75 cts.
Stories for Boys and Girls Both.
LITTLE PEOPLE EVERYWHERE. By Etta Blaisdell. New
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The mandarin disease.- Mr. Pulitzer's plan for mak-
ing journalists. - An etymologist's birthday. - The
public clamor for new books. The rebirth of New
York's State Library.- Misleading book-titles.--A
new series of war papers by General Morris Schaff.
- The business of myth-smashing.--The endowed
printing-house.- Hellenic studies at Oxford.
Hauptmann in Japanese.
COMMUNICATIONS ............ 521
The Irish Theatre Society. E. K. D.
Literature and the Custom House. George Haven
Putnam.
The Unfortunates among College Professors. One
of the Unfortunates.
THE STORY OF A GREAT SOUL. Waldo R.
Browne . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 522
THE FOLK AND THE INDIVIDUAL AS POETS.
Clark S. Northup. . . . . . . . . . . . 524
THE SPELL OF THE WILD. May Estelle Cook . . 527
MODERN VIEWS OF MARTIN LUTHER. James
Taft Hatfield .. ... .. .... .. 528
“THE SEASONS ” OF A LATER THOMSON.
Raymond Pearl . . . . . . . . . . . . 531
HOLIDAY PUBLICATIONS - II. ....... 532
Jackson's From Constantinople to the Home of Omar
Khayyam-Mrs. Ayer's Motor Flight through Algeria
and Tunisia.- Hutton's Venice and Venetia.- Miss
Wharton's Château Land.-Robertson's Wordsworth
and the English Lake Country. --Stoddard's In the
Footprints of the Padres. - Herbert's Illuminated
Manuscripts. – Lewis's Practical Book of Oriental
Rugs. - Holbrook's Portraits of Dante from Giotto
to Raffael. — Walters's The Art of the Romans. -
Caffin's Story of French Painting.-Holme's Peasant
Art in Austria and Hungary.-White's Natural His-
tory of Selborne, illustrated by George Edward Col-
lins.-Southey's Life of Nelson, illustrated by Frank
Brangwyn.-Forster's Life of Charles Dickens, with
new illustrations collected by B. W. Matz. – Tenny-
son's Princess, illustrated by Howard Chandler
Christy.-Blackmore's Lorna Doone.-Fairless' The
Road-Mender, illustrated by E. W. Waite. — The
Romaunt of the Rose, illustrated by Keith Hender-
son and Norman Wilkinson.--Dickens's The Chimes,
illustrated by Frederick Simpson Coburn. - The
Pocket Parkman.-Goldsmith's Vicar of Wakefield,
illustrated by H. M. Brock. - Tennyson's Princess,
illustrated by Everard Hopkins.-Barbour's Joyce of
the Jasmines, illustrated by Clarence Underwood.-
Farnol's The Money Moon, illustrated by A. I, Keller,
- Mrs. Barclay's Mistress of Shenstone, illustrated
by F. H. Townsend. - Miss Warner's When Woman
Proposes.-Haggard's The Mahatma and the Hare.
- Potter's An Accidental Honeymoon.- Legge's
The Comedy and Tragedy of the the Second Empire.
-Pancoast's The Vista of English Verse.-Bennett's
The Feast of St. Friend.-- Moore's Old Clock Book.
- Durland's Royal Romances of To-day. - Riley's
When She Was About Sixteen, illustrated by Howard
Chandler Christy. - Melville's Some Eccentrics and
a Woman.- The Myrtle Reed Year Book. - Miss
HOLIDAY PUBLICATIONS-Continued.
Smalley's Henry James Year Book. - Mrs. Strong's
Robert Louis Stevenson.--Bryant's Best English and
Scottish Ballads. — Gowans's Twelve Best Tales by
English Writers.-Ben King's Southland Melodies.-
Crowell's Miniature Series.- Miscellaneous Holiday
Booklets.
NOTES ..
. ................ 540
LIST OF NEW BOOKS ........... 541
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A UNIVERSITY INAUGURAL.
The installation of a new president in one of
our universities is getting to be an imposing
function. It is attended by much pomp and
circumstance, by a gathering of the clans and
the guilds from near and far, by the presence of
distinguished guests, and by many other forms
of the parade that makes for publicity at least,
although it does not always make for clearness
of vision or sobriety of educational temper. We
are not sure that we would advise a newly-elected
university president, in imitation of the legend-
ary story of Jefferson's inauguration, to ride un-
attended across the campus, hitch his horse to a
post, mount an improvised platform, and speak
his piece without further ceremony. But we are
also by no means sure that the newer fashion is
altogether commendable, or that its display of
fuss and feathers is the surest way of impressing
the public with a sense of the importance of the
higher education. Education itself should not
be made a spectacle, and the lavish employment
of spectacular methods should be avoided in pre-
senting its claims for public consideration. They
will be found more likely to encourage the un-
wholesome modern tendencies in educational
work than to strengthen the nobler ideals that
are our precious heritage from the past, and that
we are in no little danger of forgetting.
If we were to compare a dozen American
inaugural addresses of the modern type with
the same number selected from those of fifty
years ago, we should not fail to notice many
striking differences in spirit and declared pur-
pose. The men themselves would be found so
different that it would be easy enough to under-
stand why the manner of their discourse should
present so marked a contrast between the old
and the new. The clerical and philosophical
type of president that was almost universal in
the days of our fathers has been replaced by a
composite type of which the most prominent
characteristics are those of the skilled adminis-
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in applied science, and sometimes, unfortu- by the words of many of the wise who have lived
nately, the time-serving politician. The change before. Its keynotes are institutional solidarity
is not all for the better. It is apt to connote a based upon mutual consideration and cordial
suggestion of demogogic appeal, a readiness to coöperation in a common cause, and social ser-
make terms with the mammon of unrighteous- vice based upon a broad understanding of the
ness, a foolish emphasis upon “efficiency” in the many new possibilities of usefulness that hardly
commercial sense, a menace to the full freedom came within the ken of the older university.
of intellectual activity, and, in general, a lapse He thinks of the institution as “an instrument
from the standards of unworldliness that should of the general purpose, a training place of social
make the university a Palladium of the soul, servants, a counsellor of the commonwealth, a
sending “ from its lone fastness high upon our source of knowledge and idealism.” This shift-
life a ruling effluence," and warning us, when ing of the emphasis from individual culture to
we most need such admonition, that material social usefulness is natural in a professional so-
gain and the realization of vulgar ambition are ciologist like Mr. Vincent, and we can have no
not the real objects of life.
quarrel with it, because it means no change in
A study of recent university inaugurals would the fundamental ideal of education. Individual
reveal a considerable variety of styles. There culture has never been urged by its apostles
is the breezy style, suggestive of the journalistic (however mistakenly this may have been sup-
habit and the mental attitude of the man of the posed) as the final cause of education. Such a
world. There is the heart-to-heart style, seem- contention would be as self-evidently futile as
ing to take the public into its full confidence. that of art for art's sake. But it has been
There is the optimistic style, persuaded that all posited, all the way from Goethe to Arnold, as
is now for the best in education, and that the | the necessary condition of general progress.
future will be even better than the present. Enrich your own life has been the precept,
There is the magniloquent style, swaying its | not for yourself alone, but that your example
hearers with florid rhetoric and vaguely entic- and your influence may enrich other lives as well.
ing prospects. There is the statistical style, Those who have followed the first part of the
with its impressive array of facts and figures, | precept, and ignored its corollary, have been
taking for granted that numbers and endowments recreant to the cause for which all the great
are about the only things that really matter in apostles of culture have stood.
a university. And there is the style of ill con “If a people is not to perish mentally and
cealed arrogance, expressing the personality of spiritually, it must be steadily refreshed by
the man who frankly thinks of his colleagues as streams of thought and idealism. Of these, the
subordinates, and who will ride rough-shod over university strives to be a perennial source."
their rights as men and their freedom as edu Under the leadership of a man who thus sin-
cators whenever his masterful instincts prompt cerely conceives its function, the University of
him so to do. None of these styles, except the
Minnesota may well take heart anew. Its face
last, is to be utterly condemned, for each of is set toward a goal which, though far-off, is no
them has its own peculiar effectiveness, but they | marsh-fire illusion, but a steadfast beacon. It
all somehow miss the dignity, the high seriousness accepts Newman's principle that the “training
and the intellectual distinction of the old-time of the intellect which is best for the individual
utterances upon inaugural occasions. We live himself, best enables him to discharge his duties
in an age which holds the academic quality in to society." And its aim is no lower than is
flippant esteem, and its maintenance is difficult, | indicated in Newman's noble words:
even with the best of will, in the academic world.
“That perfection of the intellect, which is the result
In refreshing contrast to many inaugurals
of education, and its beau idéal, to be imparted to indi-
of recent years, that of President Vincent of the vidvals in their respective measures, is the clear, calm,
University of Minnesota keeps ever in view the accurate vision and comprehension of all things, as far
permanent ideals of education. These ideals
as the finite mind can embrace them, each in its place,
and with its own characteristics upon it. It is almost
have shifting manifestations, and they need from
prophetic from its knowledge of history, it is almost
time to time to be re-voiced to accord with the
heart-searching from its knowledge of human nature, it
mental habit of the new generation. If the tem has almost supernatural charity from its freedom from
per and the spirit are kept firm, much latitude
littleness and prejudice,- it has almost the repose of
is permissible in the expressive form of the mes-
faith, because nothing can startle it; it has almost the
beauty and harmony of heavenly contemplation, so in-
sage. Mr. Vincent's message has both lightness
timate is it with the eternal order of things and the
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training of character, the guidance of conduct.
THE FIGHT FOR FREE RAW MATERIALS
Through it, religion, law, order, and custom speak
IN LITERATURE.
to man. Its business is instruction, restraint. It
The world is always pleading with Genius to be
preaches the mortification of the flesh, the subjection
peaceful and proper. “Don't write those strong,
of desires. Imaginative literature does not exist to
strange, horrid things you delight in," it says. “Do | make us good, but to make us intelligent, — in the
something pretty and pleasing, and I will take you
vernacular, to "put us wise" as to the happenings
on my lap and feed you with sugar-plums.” “But
of humanity, most of which would never come within
I must write masterpieces," answers the Genius. “If
the scope of our experience; it exists to delight
you do I will knock you on the head!” screams the
and broaden and elevate our minds by reproducing
World. “Knock and be hanged !” says the Genius.
and expressing life — all life. There is no reason
And so masterpieces come to be written, and so the
why it should not be permeated and aërated by the
Genius joins the
principles of religion and law. Generally it is. But
“Many proud ghosts of heroes who add to the train of
though morality may be its theme, it cannot be its
Aides,
object. Literature has just as much right to rebel
Their bodies a booty to dogs or a prey to the ominous against religions, laws, moralities, as to enforce them.
vultures.”
“One good custom may corrupt a world.” Like
Generation after generation, year after year, the Hamlet and Laertes, good and evil are continually
same storm of protest is evoked by any work which changing foils. God does not fear truth.
deals with the primal passions, the great crimes, the In one sense, then, we take imaginative literature
naked realities, or the evil-working potencies of life. too seriously when we would transfer to it the pro-
But the strange thing is that what shocks one age is vince of the pulpit or the law court. It doesn't deal
accepted with calm complacency by the next. Mrs. with us in that way. In another sense, we do not
Grundy is only concerned with present violations of take seriously enough its potent magic, we do not
her code. Paris shuts its prudish ears to Molière's realize the greatness of that cloud-life wbich rises
“ School for Wives,” but in a few years it is read from the ruins of real existence, which lives on im-
in the schools for students of literature. “If I had mortally while the generations decay. The concern
been God, and known that "The Robbers' would be of didactic literature is with ethics, conduct; the
written, I should not have created the world," said concern of imaginative literature is with ontology,
a German prince, of Schiller’s play, which is now being. The greater includes the less. In this coun-
considered good for boys. The author of “Jane try there has been a good deal too much coddling
Eyre” was told that she was a woman who had of character and far too few free adventures of the
forfeited the companionship of her sex; but “Jane | intellect.
Eyre” is to-day a book for women. Even so dar Literature which deals with the relations of the
ing an innovator as Rossetti said of “Wuthering sexes, the temptations of the flesh, is the great stum-
Heights" that its scene was laid in hell, but apparently bling-block to prudes of both sexes. They can toler-
people in that locality bore English names. The best ate the literary presentation of all the other actions,
critical opinion to-day calls the work a tragic master vices, crimes, temptations of humanity, but they can-
piece, the greatest book ever written by a woman. | not endure the visualizing of this passion. How do
Not only time, but distance, seems to do away with the master poets of the world answer to their pro-
the offence of force, the flavor of impropriety. Amer tests ? Love, legal or illicit, is the predominant
ican audiences listen calmly to plays of German or theme of their works. Homer bases his Iliad on
Italian authors, when they would ostracize a native the infidelity of Helen. He defers to her beauty,
writer for similar work.
says that her act was the act of the Goddess, and
Wherever power and beauty exist, there, it is safe to | lets it go at that. Calypso in her grot, Circe on her
say, the makers of literature will always be gathered. island, are the first of the great temptresses of man.
Power is principally to be found in the extreme ex | The greatest of the ancient tragedies, the “Agamem-
hibitions of good and evil, but most in evil, for good non "and the “Edipus,” are tales of adultery and in-
is too characterless for delineation: light cannot be cest. Virgil paints most vividly the liaison of Æneas
realized except by contrasts of darkness. Beauty has and Dido. Tasso's garden of Armida, Spenser's gar-
both a spiritual side and a physical side; we cannot den of Acrasia, Milton's garden of Eden, are fur-
ignore either without throwing things out of balance. nished with nude figures painted in the most glowing
Great artists usually work from the turbid to the and alluring colors. These are perhaps three of the
clear, from the sensuous to the spiritual. The hor- purest-minded of poets. It would almost seem that
rors, the tumultuous energies of life, the delights of richness of hue and grace of line in the treatment
the senses, the charm of existence, impress them first; of the nude are tests of an author's high-mindedness.
afterwards come tranquillity and service of the spirit. | Tennyson is as sensuous as anyone in his “Merlin and
In part, the objection to such themes springe from Vivien." Wagner has Kundry and her flower-girls.
a radical misconception of the relations of imagina Shakespeare bares the very throbbing heart of sense
tive literature pure literature -- to life. A great in the love scenes of “Romeo and Juliet." Marlowe,
deal of what for lack of any other word we call | Fletcher, Ford, Dryden, even Pope, Burns, Byron,
“ literature” is didactic. It is concerned with the Keats, Shelley, Goethe, Hugo, Musset, — in fact,


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everyone who has written greatly, — has written perience, which enlarges their minds, deepens their
frankly and freely of that passion where flesh is | emotions, makes them contemporaries of all times,
transfigured into spirit and spirit transformed into citizens of all places. They are willing to allow to
flesh.
the artist the utmost liberty of his materials if he
There is a vast difference in the way men and wo | can only make something of them.
men regard the literary presentation of sex subjects. | There are two statues in existence one of which
To women, love is a mystery, something to be kept represents the Muse urging the horse Pegasus on,
holy and secret. Her curiosity about it may be as while the other shows her holding him back. This
great as man's, but she wants the matter wrapped up is no bad allegory of the imaginative and didactic
in sentiment, in delicate innuendo, in reserves more forces of literature in relation to life. The main
dangerous, perhaps, than blunt dealing. Woman is business of the former is certainly encitement. Its
probably responsible, more than man, for the thou- | province is to make men realize that they are alive
sands of novels, plays, poems, which treat the “theme and that they have wings. Unfortunately with us
of three"—wife, husband, and lover. Man is the fan in America, the restraining hand is most in evidence.
tast and philosopher. He can be more ethereal and The direction of our literature has been largely un-
imaginative in his desires and emotions than woman, dertaken by pedants and pedagogues who itch to use
but the ironic earth-spirit moves in him and makes on mankind generally the ferules they are forbidden
him turn the matter into unholy merriment. His per- to apply to boys. CHARLES LEONARD MOORE.
suasion of the cheat of life makes him strike at the
processes of life itself. His spirit, indignant at not
finding perfection in the one relation which seems
CASUAL COMMENT.
to promise it, takes revenge in ridicule. Hence
arises a vast literature of raillery against women, an THE MANDARIN DISEASE, the itch for honors
orgy of humor about the functions of sex. Hence and titles, in the intellectual no less than in the civil
the bestialities of Aristophanes, Juvenal's frightful and political world, may yet be cured among us
libels on women, Rabelais' overflowing animality, if other college and university presidents follow
Shakespeare's invective and descents into the gross the example of Columbia's head in censuring this
est realism, Goethe's sardonic irony, Burns's frank mania for badges rather than for the things they are
indecencies. Often this kind of writing is about the supposed to stand for. “During the last twenty-five
profoundest thing in literature. At times, at least, years,” says President Butler in his current annual
it makes both the lofty idealisms and the common report, “there has developed among the colleges
sense proprieties of the world seem like hollow shams. and schools of the United States a deplorable form
It is a sort of skeleton at the feast, a thing at once of educational snobbery, which insists that a candi-
for mirth and shuddering. But literature cannot date for appointment to a teaching position shall
spare such revelations. A literature without such have gained the privilege of writing the letters Ph.D.
reminders of the rent the soul must pay for its ten- | after his name," while, as a matter of fact, “few
ure of the body would be a literature in the air; it persons are less well equipped to make good college
would be a dish lacking in salt and savor.
and secondary school teachers than the most recent
Plato excluded the mischievous poets from his possessors of the degree of doctor of philosophy."
Republic; the Spartans, in fact, extruded them from Here might pertinently be quoted many passages
their community. It is possible that some State may from the late Professor James's article on “The
again try this experiment, but it is quite certain that Ph.D. Octopus," first printed in “The Harvard
its condition under such a reign of Fact will be Monthly” and now included in his just-published
worse than it was before. It will be a dull and posthumous volume, “ Memories and Studies." For
gloomy tyranny. Not only will much of the joy and example: “To interfere with the free development
hope which goes to ease the burden of life be ban- | of talent, to obstruct the natural play of supply and
ished, but morals themselves will deteriorate. The demand in the teaching profession, to foster academic
play of imagination is the safety-valve of the pas snobbery by the prestige of certain privileged insti.
sions. If you debar men from indulging in mimic tutions, to transfer accredited value from essential
passions, they will plunge all the more readily into manhood to an outward badge, to blight hopes and
real ones.
promote invidious sentiments, to divert the attention
Readers of sense know very well how to discrimi of aspiring youth from direct dealings with truth to
nate. They are furnished with feelers, antennæ, by the passing of examinations, such consequences,
which they can separate what is practical from the if they exist, ought surely to be regarded as draw-
divine make-believe of literature. They are not going backs to the system, and an enlightened public
to commit murder because they can thrill with the consciousness ought to be keenly alive to the im-
spectacle of Macbeth's guilt. They are not going portance of reducing their amount." In a later
to filch purses because they can enjoy the humor of utterance, an address on “The College-Bred,” also
Fallstaff's exploit at Gadshill. They are not going contained in the above-named volume, the same
to bolt with the first pleasing person of the other thought finds expression in different form: “To
sex, because Cleopatra or Camille is dear to them. have spent one's youth at college, in contact with
They accept imaginative literature as a vicarious ex- | the choice and rare and precious, and yet still to be


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a blind prig or vulgarian, unable to scent out human such a prospect. “It is East Anglian English,” he
excellence or to divine it amid its accidents, to know asserted, " which sets the fashion throughout the
it only when ticketed and labelled and forced on us country. But it is a law of nature that language
by others, this indeed should be accounted the very must change, and after all • lydy' is not more offen-
calamity and shipwreck of a higher education." | sive to a cultivated ear in the present day than the
Probably it is only with the wisdom, and the sad word 'dame,' as educated people pronounce it, would
ness, of some degree of maturity, that a man learns have been in that of Chaucer.” Nevertheless, if
that he is only beginning really to live when he “ lydy" ever really becomes the accepted pronuncia-
ceases to prize the rewards of success, either his own tion in England, we shall begin to see ample cause
or another's.
. . .
and excuse for the formation of an “ American lan-
MR. PulitzER'S PLAN FOR MAKING JOURNALISTS,
guage” in good earnest, and for a declaration of
linguistic independence of the mother country. Dr.
by richly endowing a school for their education, ap.
pears to work itself out with some difficulty. Confer-
Skeat indulged further in some interesting personal
ences are now in progress at Columbia University,
reminiscences. He recalled his four years' curacy
of which the proposed school is intended to be a
at East Durham, which was followed by a two years'
branch, to determine upon its organization and cur-
service in a like capacity at Godalming. Then en-
riculum. But progress appears to be slow. Journal-
sued illness and enforced idleness, after which he
ism, in its larger aspects, has a width and a vagueness
returned to Cambridge and was made lecturer on
of range that make it much harder to lay out a definite
mathematics at Christ's College. And when, a little
and satisfactory course of study than is true in such
later, Dr. Furnivall founded the Early English Text
callings as civil engineering, for instance, or medi-
Society, Dr. Skeat began to edit early texts for him.
cine, or law. Politics, art, literature, economics, pub-
Thirty years were spent in preparing “ Piers Plow-
lic health, everything, in short, of general interest,
man” -unremunerative work, certainly, but luckily
the learned editor was not then, and is not now, un-
and many things of special interest, find a place in
the journals of to-day. A lifelong course in general
| der the necessity of earning his bread and cheese,
information and in reading the best books, supple-
as he expressed it. .. .
mented by the necessary instruction in certain practi THE PUBLIC CLAMOR FOR NEW BOOKS threatens
cal details, seems not too comprehensive a curriculum to deafen the librarian of any public library in a
for the thorough journalist, who at the same time community not hopelessly somnolent in its habits.
should be able to write without too wide a departure In the current report of the Galesburg (Illinois)
from the best models. It is little wonder that Mr. Public Library, lament is made over the insufficiency
Pulitzer provided for the withholding of one-half his of the annual appropriation for new books and the
stipulated benefaction until the school should have consequent impairment of the library's usefulness.
proved a success in the opinion of competent judges. “The experience of other libraries has been the
It may be well to add here an outline of the curricu- same," continues Miss Hoover, “for reports show
lum sketched by the founder himself in his will: The that a reduction in the purchase of books is invariably
principles of law, as it pertains to journalism; litera- | followed by a decrease in the use of the library.”
ture, with special reference to the literature of poli Dr. Mark Hopkins on one occasion expressed his
tics; the study of truth and accuracy, and the art of astonishment at the rate of growth noted by him in
being able to find facts when they are required, rather the library of the college with which his name is
than cramming a student full of them in school; his so inseparably associated. “Why," he exclaimed,
tory, with reference to the rise and fall of nations, “there are hundreds of old books here that I have
and the making and breaking of great public institu never read, and still you are buying new ones every
tions ; economics; modern languages to such an ex month!” The old books, or a small fraction of
tent as to give a newspaper man access to literature them, have their use and their enduring vitality;
in other than his native tongue; the ethics of journal- but the interpretation of the life we are now living
ism, for above all other qualifications in a journalist demands a never-ceasing addition to the store of
the testator valued “moral sense, courage, and in existing literature. Hence the call for a new book
tegrity.”
. . .
from nineteen readers, with only the twentieth one
AN ETYMOLOGIST'S BIRTHDAY served him recently | content to receive a time-worn and time-tested classic.
as an occasion for making some prognostications on
the future of the language whose past he has so zeal THE RE-BIRTH OF NEW YORK'S STATE LIBRARY,
ously studied. The Rev. Walter W. Skeat, author the rising of this phænix from its ashes of last March,
of the widely and favorably known “Etymological must necessarily be a slow process; but a liberal leg-
Dictionary," was interviewed on the seventy-sixth islative appropriation has made possible the vigorous
anniversary of his birth, and said -- or is said to have prosecution of the work of obtaining new collections
said — among other things, that certain cockneyisms to replace as far as possible the old, and of providing
now in vogue are likely to become eventually the es- an adequate fire-proof building for their early recep-
tablished usage, and that the careful speaker of some tion. A circular sent out by the Library makes the
future generation may be expected to say “lydy" | safe assertion that “it would be too much to expect
for “lady,” however much we may now shudder at | to make the New York State Library greater than


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all other libraries in all particulars. Though it will the story of John Gilpin's exciting ride, and the all
have some books on most subjects, it cannot undertake but sacrilegious contradiction of the accepted account
to collect all the books or even ail the important books of Captain John Parker's exhortation to his Minute
on all subjects." The constituency of the Library Men to stand their ground on Lexington Common.
tends under modern methods to become as wide as More recently still a literal-minded clergyman of Ply-
the State, or even wider; and the range of its mate- mouth is said to have found proof to convince him,
rial must be no narrow one. Especial attention, and with which he has tried to convince others, that
however, will be given to the following ten classes: Miles Standish did not send John Alden to propose
general reference books, law, medicine, history, edu in his name to the Puritan maiden Priscilla, and that
cation, social science, technology and engineering, consequently she could not have made the arch reply
science, manuscripts, government documents. Tend- | attributed to her. Such iconoclasm as this has its
ers are invited from all who have books to offer that charms, as all know who have engaged in it even to
are within the scope of the proposed collections. Fur- | a slight extent. . . .
ther particulars may be obtained from the librarian,
THE ENDOWED PRINTING HOUSE, non-commercial
Mr. J. I. Wyer, Jr. . . .
in its aims, and devoted to the publication of schol.
MISLEADING BOOK-TITLES, like Ruskin's “ Notes arly and deserving works that must otherwise fail
on the Construction of Sheepfolds,” and many another to see the light, has yet to establish itself among
in his list of works, are sufficiently common, and us an educational agency comparable with the en-
sufficiently vexatious to the library cataloguer, who dowed or free library, the endowed college or uni-
can hardly spend time to read a volume through in versity, the endowed lecture course, or the (still in
order to determine its proper classification. Recently the experimental stage) endowed theatre. The Har-
some glaring instances were reported from the British vard " Crimson ” makes an appeal for an endowed
Museum by Dr. C. K. Fortescue, keeper of printed Harvard University Press that shall do for Ameri-
books in that institution. He says it is no uncommon can scholarship what similar presses at Oxford and
thing for the author of a plain and unpretending book Cambridge have long been doing for English letters
about Sussex to christen it with some such name as and learning. Such an establishment would, as the
“The Glittering Glades of Grassland.” A certain writer estimates, cost something like one hundred
treatise on natural history is disguised under the title thousand dollars to build and to equip for handling
“Music of the Wild,” and a work named " Light works not confined to our own language; and at least
for the Blind " turns out to be an appeal in behalf an equal sum would be needed as an endowment.
of African missions. “Earl Percy's Dinner Table”. Not a few of our universities have special funds for
sounds like the title of a historical novel, or of a the publishing of certain serials or studies, and occa-
racy collection of anecdotes and witty conversation; sionally some sort of printing establishment under
whereas it designates a sober history of the American their control, but nothing of the sort that can com-
Revolution. The number of misleading book-titles pare with the Oxford University Press.
familiar to library workers, and to omnivorous read-
ers, is not small. A list of some length could be
HELLENIC STUDIES AT OXFORD will not quite yet
drawn up without any great difficulty.
be abandoned in favor of aëronautic engineering or
other scientific or vocational courses. By a vote of
A NEW SERIES OF WAR PAPERS BY GENERAL five hundred and ninety-five to three hundred and
MORRIS SCHAFF, to be entitled “The Death of the sixty, the Oxonians have defeated a movement to
Confederacy,” announced by the “Atlantic Monthly" exempt from Greek all students in mathematics and
for next year, is a matter for congratulation. Gen- | the sciences. This was not, it is true, a proposal to
eral Schaff's former series, “ The Spirit of Old West banish Greek entirely, but it was felt to be a step in
Point” and “ The Battle of the Wilderness,” won for that direction, and the conservatives rallied strongly
him perhaps as solid a literary reputation as has to oppose the radicals. Educational ideals must
been gained by any American in the past few years. needs change as the centuries wax and wane, but
And though the word “solid” as applied to literary Oxford is wisely determined to be not the first by
work too often denotes the conventional or the stodgy, whom the new is tried, nor yet the last to lay the
this is certainly not the case with General Schaff's | old aside.
productions. History more flushed with emotion,
| HAUPTMANN IN JAPANESE not long ago held the
more aërated with imagination, has seldom been writ- boards at the Teikoku-za, in Tokyo, and drew a large
ten. His “Dream March to the Wilderness,” in “The audience. The Jiyu Gekijo, or Liberal Theatre Asso-
Atlantic” for last May, is worthy of the best days ciation, presented the play, “Lonely Lives," which
of that magazine. . ..
proved a severe test of the translator's powers, and
THE BUSINESS OF MYTH-SMASHING carries some was made further difficult of adequate production by
merited odium with it. To pull down is easier than the assumption of women's parts by men. Appar-
to build up, but the facile downpuller has ever felt ently the introduction of the actress in Japan, hailed
an exultant sense of superiority to the laborious up as a sign of progress some time ago, has not pro-
builder. Among recent destructive criticisms of time- | ceeded far. Other plays of the western world were
honored legends have been the highly unnecessary announced as in preparation at the same theatre,
and irrelevant demonstration of the baselessness of | notably “A Doll's House,” “Othello," and a part of


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“ The Merchant of Venice.” Still other translations and have simply the privilege of competing in this mar-
of European plays are being prepared, and the | ket with trans-Atlantic publishers.
Tokyo theatre-goers seem likely to have their fill of
Under the tariff provisions, the cost of all of the
the exotic drama, which should tend to encourage a
articles required for the production of books is kept
high as proportioned to the prices paid for similar
higher grade of performance in the native dramatists.
materials by trans-Atlantic competitors, and the conse-
quent difference in the selling price of American edi-
tions - or at least of a portion of such editions --- is
COMMUNICATIONS.
then assigned as a ground for the admission, irrespective
of copyright conditions, of the trans-Atlantic editions of
THE IRISH THEATRE SOCIETY.
American copyrighted books. Such a decision is arrived
at by joint committee of the two Houses, composed in
(To the Editor of THE DIAL.)
majority of protectionists, who are themselves respon-
As one phase of the general movement for the uplift sible for the policy that makes books dearer than they
of the drama in America, many of your readers are no ought to be. In the instance which served as the text
doubt interested in the remarkable achievements of the for your admirable article, the publishers who undertake
organization known as the Irish Players, in several East to supply the market with imported editions are treated
ern cities this season. This brilliant company, accom as malefactors, and are subjected, under arbitrary and
panied by the two moving spirits of the Irish National unannounced changes in the interpretation of the con-
Theatre Society, Lady Gregory and Mr. William Butler fused provisions of the statute, not only to the payment
Yeats, has visited Boston and Washington, and is now of excessive duties - duties which must stand largely in
playing in New York. The Society was founded seven the way of the sale of the books in question and of future
years ago, primarily to further the Irish literary move importations of similar books--but to the risk of penalties
ment. The plays were in many cases written to meet on the top of those duties. These penalties were to be
the need for them, and the players---for there were then imposed because these wicked publishers, having been
no Irish actors — were trained to give the plays. The importing under one interpretation of the law for a long
first company, of unpaid amateurs, was recruited from series of years, had not been able to foresee the mental
the working people of Dublin; they worked by day and attitude of some later Dogberry in the Treasury Depart-
rehearsed and acted at night, for love of “the art of ment or in the office of the Appraisers who might decide
the theatre.” Thus, out of love for Ireland and a belief to change the method. There is not another country in
in the dramatic value of Irisb poetry and Irish thought, the world that treats the interests of literature in so
grew the Irish Theatre Society. That it has called into mediæval a fashion. GEORGE HAVEN PUTNAM.
being Lady Gregory's charming comedies, is much to its New York, December 7, 1911.
credit; that it encouraged and has worthily produced
Mr. Synge's masterpieces, is more. When the English
THE UNFORTUNATES AMONG COLLEGE
censor forbade the performance of Mr. Shaw's “Shew-
PROFESSORS.
ing up of Blanco Posnet,” the Abbey Theatre presented
(To the Editor of THE DIAL.)
it with triumpbant success. The Society has had its May I venture my word of commendation of your
troubles. There were riots in Dublin over Mr. Synge's recent article on “ Pensions and the Learned Profes-
“ Playboy." The Boston woman who, wearied by the sions,” especially the observation that “ In the adminis-
quiet realism of Mr. Boyle's “ Building Fund," exclaimed trator's heaven there is more joy over one sinner who is
disgustedly, when the curtain rose on the last act, “I thwarted than there is grief over the lost opportunities
thought at least they'd have a wake !" is a type of the of ninety-and-nine righteous persons who need no
great unappreciative public who see nothing impressive thwarting.” There is much truth in this. A professor
in the simple plays which the Irish actors perform so may have reached or exceeded the required age, and
simply and convincingly. But interest in the movement may have fulfilled the requisite number of years of
has grown steadily, and with it a taste for sincere and professorial service; but if he happen to have lost his
original drama and sincere and quiet acting. More pre chair, even through no fault of his own, he is met at the
tentious experimenters in the work of dramatic uplifting door of the Pension Trustees' office with the unwelcome
well stand amazed at what has been done in Dublin with greeting, “I know not whence you come. Depart into
a very limited expenditure, by a disinterested artistic the outer courts, where you may cool your heels ad
management, and a company of splendid achievements libitum.” It may be that there are so many of these
and of high ideals.
E. K. D. unfortunates that to admit them would “swamp" the
Rutland, Vt., December 5, 1911.
Fund; but we are informed that Mr. Carnegie, in the
goodness of his heart, has made such addition to his
various Funds that the amount received by the Pension
LITERATURE AND THE CUSTOM HOUSE.
Fund may enable the Trustees to widen the terms of
(To the Editor of THE DIAL.)
admission to its benefits. Wherein do these “unfor-
I have read with full appreciation the article on Dog tunates” differ from the more blessed ones who have
berry at the Custom House, in your issue of Novem been so fortunate as to retain their chairs until they
ber 16. The attitude of the Government of the United have fulfilled the terms imposed by the Trustees, which
States toward the interests of the publishers, the men appear to be like the laws of the Medes and Persians ?
who are doing their share in behalf of the higher educa All poor professors are grateful to Mr. Carnegie for
tion of the country, is not in line with the progress of his liberality in establishing such a Fund, but I respect-
civilization.
fully submit that the terms might be made more liberal
Under the provisions of the Copyright law, the on which the benefits are dispensed.
American publishers are prevented from controlling
ONE OF THE UNFORTUNATES.
the market, which in form has been assigned to them, 1 December 8, 1911.


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of parada view of proporti
The New Books.
graphical and critical introductions which are
so important a feature of the noble edition just
referred to.
THE STORY OF A GREAT SOUL.*
These introductions form the basis of the Life
“ I hear it often said by my friends,” wrote now published. Minor changes have necessarily
Ruskin in an unpublished preface for one of been made, the arrangement is considerably al-
his later books, “ that my writings are trans- | tered, and new matter has been added ; but in
parent, so that I may myself be clearly seen very considerable part Mr. Cook's “Life of John
through them. They are so, and what is seen Ruskin ” is a word-for-word reprint of the intro-
of me through them is clearly seen ; yet I know ductions prepared for the Library Edition. That
no other author of candour who has given this fact is not fairly stated in the author's Pre-
so partial, so disproportioned, so steadily re fatory Note, gives occasion for the one word of
served a view of his personality." Whatever censure to be found against the present work.
of paradox there might be in these words, they Ruskin's life was, as he himself said of it,
were written, of course, before the publication “ persistently literary.” For all his European
of - Præterita.” Had that work been carried travels, and acquaintanceship with the great of
through to completion, Ruskin's statement could | his time, the life he led was in the main private
have been reversed, and we might truly say that and secluded. A biography of him must there-
no other author of candor had given us so com fore, as Mr. Cook points out, “ be the story of
plete, so symmetrical, so entirely frank a view | a soul,” — “ the account, mainly, of a character,
of his personality. But the fiery intellect had a temperament, an influence; and seldom, of
burned itself out when “Præterita" was little events on the stage of public action.” Ruskin
more than half completed ; and “that most | himself believed thata principal function of biog-
heavenly book” (so Burne-Jones rightly called raphy was to reveal what is “ beautiful or woe-
it) remains but a fragment of autobiography. ful” in an individual soul. In Ruskin's life, the
But those who would see Ruskin steadily and beautiful and the woeful were abundantly and
see him whole have not lacked for opportunity. wondrously mixed; his path seemed, for the most
In the twelve years since his death, there has part, a via dolorosa which yet led somehow along
been an avalanche of personal reminiscences the borders of Fairyland. To trace that strange
and Ruskiniana of every conceivable sort, — the path, to analyze that complex character and
Bibliography in the Library Edition contains many-sided intellect, to summarize the quality
entry of over 1200 items. Chiefly, of course, and influence of that life-work of colossal in-
there have been Mr. Collingwood's excellent dustry, - here was a task that might well appal
“Life and Work of Ruskin” and “ Ruskin the most skilful biographer. But Mr. Cook
Relics”; and Mr. Frederic Harrison's volume faces it all squarely, and comes off triumphant.
in the “ English Men of Letters " series. And On the biographical side, he makes liberal drafts
now Mr. E. T. Cook, fresh from his labors on upon unpublished material in the way of dia-
the monumental Library Edition, puts forth in ries, note-books, and letters, as well as upon
two large volumes of six hundred pages each “Præterita” and “Fors Clavigera," thus letting
what must be considered the definitive biography Ruskin in large measure tell his own story. The
of Ruskin — the final authority on that end more original part of the work lies in Mr. Cook's
lessly interesting life. Of his capabilities for detailed accounts of the character and fortune
the task now completed, Mr. Cook gave pre | and influence of Ruskin's books. His aim has
liminary proof in his collection of “ Studies in been always to illustrate the works by the life
Ruskin,” published several years ago. He was and the life by the works.
one of that brilliant group of undergraduates at | It was scarcely to be expected that Mr. Cook,
Oxford upon whom Ruskin cast his spell in the or anyone else, could give us much in the way
early seventies, and who became thenceforth his of actual fact regarding Ruskin's life that was
avowed disciples and intimate associates. As not already known. The essential part of all
chief editor of the Library Edition, Mr. Cook that is known, however, he selects with invari-
has for several years past been going over every | able good judgment and presents in admirable
available scrap of Ruskin records — diaries, form. In dealing with Ruskin's unfortunate
note-books, unpublished manuscript, etc.; and marriage, he tells us much more than did Mr.
it is he who is responsible for the extended bio Collingwood; yet there is not the slightest con-
*THE LIFE OF John RUSKIN. By E. T. Cook. In two | cession to the class of readers that consume Mr.
volumes, with portraits. New York: The Macmillan Co. Gribble's vulgar revelations. He recognizes


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fully (as fully, even, as did Ruskin himself) the labour.” Thenceforth for him there was to be
faults and limitations of the master's character almost continuous warfare, and but little peace,
the “dangerous and lonely pride,” the wayward until that decade of “the time of death " which
ness, the “ tendency to absolutism, petulance, closed at Brantwood in 1900. It is this period,
over-emphasis.” Such incidents as the quarrel from 1860 to the end, that is covered in Mr.
with Rossetti and the misunderstanding with Cook's second volume. Of the various transi-
Gladstone are dealt with in a spirit of unim- tions in Ruskin's life-work, the author gives us
peachable fairness. But Mr. Cook never con this excellent summary :
fuses accidentals with essentials ; for him, as “Unpractical as he is commonly called, and as in the
for all who read his pages, it is the nobility and vulgar sense he certainly was, Ruskin was strongly pos-
beauty and strength of Ruskin's character that
sessed by the instinct and passion for practice. His de-
overshadow all else. “ He is not a man,” said
sire was to do things, and to set others to doing them.
Starting as a critic of painting, he had arrived at the
Dr. John Brown, who knew him perhaps as conclusion that art, to be really fine, must be the repre-
intimately as any, “but a stray angel, who has sentation of beautiful realities and be pursued in a spirit
singed his wings a little and tumbled into our of delight. Proceeding as a critic of architecture, he
sphere.”
had found this art to be the reflection of national char-
acter, and the secret of good Gothic to consist in the
There are three great divisions in all men's
happy life of the workman. Turning next to the study
lives, Ruskin wrote in “ Fors Clavigera,” _"the of economics, he saw, in a society ordered on the princi-
days of youth, of labour, and of death. Youth ples of unregulated competition, and in an age given
is properly the forming time — that in which a
over to mechanical and material ideas, the negation of
man makes himself, or is made, what he is for
conditions favonrable to happy art. The final step was,
to one of his ardent temperament, clear and simple. He
ever to be. Then comes the time of labour, when,
was not content to live in a world of the imagination; he
having become the best he can be, he does the strove to realise the conditions of the good and beautiful
best he can do. Then the time of death, which, in the actual world — to build the Tabernacle of God
in happy lives is very short; but always a time.
among men. It was not that he wanted to be a social
reformer, or that he felt himself in any way peculiarly
The ceasing to breathe is only the end of death.”
qualified for the part. His Prophetic work was not of
Of Ruskin's own life this statement is peculiarly choice, but of necessity. It was a payment of ransom.
true. Mr. Cook's first volume deals with the · I simply cannot paint, nor read, nor look at minerals,
period of youth -- the period, that is, from nor do anything else that I like . . . because of the
Ruskin's birth, in 1819, to the completion of
misery that I know of.' He had to clear himself “from
all sense of responsibility for this material distress, by
“ Modern Painters,” in 1860. The years of
doing what he could to point a way to the cure of it. His
childhood are covered so fully in “ Præterita” work in this kind was begun, he tells us, “as a byework
that but a single chapter is given to them here. | to quiet my conscience, that I might be happy in what
It was with that fateful gift, on his thirteenth I supposed to be my own proper life of art-teaching.'”
birthday, of a copy of Rogers's “ Italy," with 1 One of the most interesting chapters of the
Turner's illustrations, that the career of Ruskin present Life is that entitled “In a Literary
really begins. His work in life as an interpreter Workshop,” describing Ruskin's methods of
of Turner and of Nature was then decided for composition, his relations with printers and en-
him; with that day began a quarter-century of gravers, and similar matters. “ As one who has
“quiet investigation of beautiful things,” the | lived behind the scenes, as it were, of Ruskin's
chief or at least the most immediate result of pageant of style," and who “ has been admitted
which was “ Modern Painters." With the ex- to all the secrets of his literary workshop,” Mr.
ception of a youthful love affair which came to Cook speaks here with particular authority.
nothing, his life during this period was continu. | There is much quotable material in this chapter,
ously and blessedly happy. But for some time but we prefer to give this characteristic picture
before the last volume of “ Modern Painters” of Ruskin in one of the later Oxford lecture
had appeared, a new spirit was dawning in Rus courses:
kin — a growing sense of the evil of the world, “I recall another effective piece of what may be called
" the terrible call of human crime for resistance
the lecturer's stage-play. Ruskin was expatiating, as
was his wont, on the vandalism of the modern world.
and of human misery for help.” With this cry
On an easel beside him was a water-colour drawing of
ringing in his ears, the interpretation of art be Leicester by Turner. The old stone bridge is pictur-
came a mockery. Abandoning all other plans, esque,' he said, “is n't it? But of course you want some-
Ruskin set himself resolutely to attack the dragon. thing more “imposing" nowadays. So you shall have it.'
With the appearance of “Unto This Last " in
And taking his paint-box and brush he rapidly sketched
in on the glass what is known in modern specifications
1860 (** the beginning of the days of reproba-
as a “handsome iron structure.' "Then,' he continued,
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and I will give them to you galore.' Which he pro noble life," as he has himself told us, “ leaves
ceeded to do in like fashion. The blue sky of heaven
the fibre of it interwoven for ever in the work
was pretty, but you cannot have everything, you know.'
And he painted clouds of black smoke over Turner's sky.
of the world; by so much, evermore, the strength
• Your “improvements,” he went on, are marvellous
of the human race has gained.” However erro-
“ triumphs of modern industry," I know; but somehow neous his artistic teaching may have been, Rus-
they do not seem to produce nobler men and women,
kin gave to the study of art an impetus and a
and no modern town is complete, you will admit, with-
vitality it had never known before, and of which
out a gaol and a lunatic asylum to crown it. So here
they are for you.' By which time not an inch of the
true artists for generations to come will reap
Turner drawing was left visible under the improve- | abundant benefits. And though in our broad
ments' painted upon the glass. “But for my part,' said human relations we still reject Ruskin's moral
Ruskin, taking his sponge, and with one pass of the hand
teaching, as indeed we reject that of Christ, most
wiping away those modern improvements against which
he had inveighed in so many printed volumes for
of the specific reforms which he was the first to
my part, I prefer the old.'”
suggest, and for which he so valiantly fought,
There is a certain saying, much current in
have become the accepted commonplaces of
the dilettante world at present, to the effect that
to-day.
“We have got past Ruskin now.” On this point
Mr. Cook's biography is indisputably the
let us have the evidence of Mr. Cook, speaking
“ book of the year,” – to ardent disciples of
in his capacity as Ruskin bibliographer:
Ruskin it is indeed the book of many years.
“The very period which is said to mark the eclipse
Next to the earnest study of Ruskin's own writ-
of Ruskin's authority as a writer upon art and nature
ings, we could scarcely conceive of a more in-
has been the period which has witnessed the greatest spiring and beneficial discipline than to follow
extension of the vogue of his books on those subjects. through Mr. Cook's pages the detailed life-story
I will not dwell upon the great flood of cheap reprints
of this noblest and wisest spirit of his age.
in the English language, which during recent years have
made Ruskin an author for the many, instead of an au-
Carlyle and Emerson, Tennyson and Browning,
thor for the few. This, it may be said, is merely a case
and many another great intellect, were of that
of the vulgar entering upon a field which superior per age, also; but Ruskin could truly have said with
sons have abandoned. But there is another feature in the the apostle, “ I laboured more abundantly than
Bibliography of Ruskin which is significant. Since the
days when he laid down his pen, he has ceased to be
they all : yet not I, but the grace of God which
only an English author, and has become a world-author
was with me.”
Many of his books, and especially his books upon art, The two volumes are comely in all external
have been translated into French, German, Italian, Span- | details. Five portraits in photogravure and a
ish, Swedish, Hungarian. I am not aware that Ruskin
facsimile page of Ruskin's MS. are included by
has been translated into Russian, but Tolstoy's appre-
ciation of him is well known. He regarded Ruskin as
way of illustration; while a full and well-pre.
the greatest Englishman of his time. Ruskin's writings
pared Index is a feature of no little importance.
have been the subject also of essays or treatises in A few typographical errors might well be cor-
Belgium, in Holland, in Denmark, in Switzerland. rected in the next edition, — such, for example,
And the foreign vogue of Ruskin has been greatest in
as “to” for “the” on page 118, and “world-
the countries where æsthetic criticism is pursued with
the greatest ardour. In Germany, Herr Engel may
less” for “wordless” in the quotation from
have set the fashion, for in his History of English Liter | Cory's - Mimnermus in Church” on page 265
ature (1897) he commended Ruskin to German readers — both in the second volume.
as the Englishman's Winckelmann and Lessing in one.'
Ruskin has become a favourite theme for University
Waldo R. BROWNE.
dissertations in Germany; elaborate commentaries have
been devoted to him; and on the occasion of his death,
and in years inmediately following it, his life and work
THE FOLK AND THE INDIVIDUAL
attracted notice in German periodicals bardly less wide-
spread than in England itself. “In the last twenty
AS POETS. *
years,' said Professor Sieper in a recent lecture in Professor Gummere has become widely known
London, • Ruskin and Morris more than any other
| for his substantial contributions to the early
Englishmen have influenced German thought. In
France it is much the same, and nowhere has Ruskin
history of poetry : “ The Anglo-Saxon Meta-
found more sympathetic or discerning criticism than is
phor,” his doctoral dissertation at Halle, 1881;
to be found in the abundant series of studies' which “ Germanic Origins," 1892; “Old English
have appeared in Paris during recent years.”
Ballads,” 1894 ; " The Beginnings of Poetry,"
The simple truth is, of course, that we can 1901 ; “ The Popular Ballad," 1907 (reviewed
never “ get past Ruskin,” were his so-called in The Dial for September 16, 1907). In
æsthetic and economic “heresies” a thousand
* DEMOCRACY AND POETRY. By Francis B. Gummere.
times more heretical than they are. “Every | Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co.


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his latest volume, “ Democracy and Poetry,” | In his second chapter, Mr. Gummere con-
we have the N. W. Harris Lectures delivered siders the reaction against democracy more at
this year at Northwestern University.
length. The constructive idea of free individ-
It may be well to recall the main thesis of uals combining in service and allegiance to an
Professor Gummere's work of a decade since imagined state has not yet been tested by ex-
on the origins of poetry. He has there shown perience. On the other hand, in philosophy,
that poetry was in its origin a social creation, science, history, literature, there has been a gen-
essentially communal. In its humble begin eral recanting of the democratic idea. Events
nings, consent and rhythm played important formerly explained as emanating from a confed-
parts. The communal element at first existed eracy of people or of natural forces are now ex-
to an almost exclusive degree ; only “after long plained as made up of individual initiative and a
ages of alternating collective and individual collective imitation. Science and history have
forces, working within the social union, was the turned monarchical, and explain all social pro-
individual socially free to make himself master cesses on a monarchical basis. In general, his-
in a wholly social art.” Thus there was a con tory has been shorn of the democratic idea. The
stant alternation of social-centripetal and indi democratic movement, however, has left its im-
vidual-centrifugal impulses, amid which poetry | press on the science of poetry. It aroused a gen-
steadily advanced. The surviving representa eral desire to enlarge knowledge of mankind.
tive of communal forces is rhythm : “ that con “The People” got a new meaning. For Herder,
sent of sympathy which is perhaps the noblest who goes to the centre of things, the supreme
thing in all human life.” It is for this reason that ideal is justice; he dedicated his selection of folk-
poetry,even in mediocrity, does more than prose songs to the Unseen Powers of Righteousness and
at its best. For poetry is both tonic and opiate; Justice. In poetic justice, the democratic ideal
and it owes its appeal to-day to the same elements of the people found its best expression. In the
that informed primitive poetry — the consent theories and history of verse, however, the demo-
of rhythm and the power of human sympathy. cratic idea was ruined by perversions and absurd-
The present volume may be regarded as a ities. Montesquieu and Voltaire, with their
sequel to the work mentioned. In the Harris optimistic faith in the Thinker, give way to
Lectures, Professor Gummere deals with the Anatole France, for whom thinking is the most
communal origins of poetry and with the rela- dangerous of occupations. In the midst of this
tion between democratic ideals and the life and collapse, Whitman and Taine proclaimed the
vogue of poetry. The book is not easy reading ; triumph of democracy in poetry. Were they real
there is, for example, one paragraph of fifteen exponents of the central democratic idea ?
pages, and another of eleven ; and such a thing | The third chapter takes up these two men at
as a topic-sentence is a positive rarity. We shall some length. Whitman is plainly the democrat
therefore do readers a service by giving some | in poetry. Are his best works really poems?
account of its course of thought.
Professor Gummere thinks not. Whitman re-
In the opening chapter, dealing with the ideals fused to keep step, was lawless. His poetic democ-
and vitality of democracy, Professor Gummere racy, being purely destructive, cannot stand.
notes the numerous defections from the ranks
“He cannot be the poet of democracy in its highest
of supporters of democracy -- Goethe, Burke, ideal who rejects the democratic idea of submission to
Wordsworth, Coleridge, Tennyson, Renan, the highest social order, to the spirit of the laws, to
Lowell, - and then asks what it is that they
that imagined community.”.
recanted. He finds it to be the literal absolute In this view of Whitman, many readers to-day
sovereignty of the people ; that cause has failed. will probably not concur. Yet we believe Mr.
The long struggle for freedom has passed beyond Gummere's prophecy a safe one. We would,
its goal into license and abuse of power. The however, raise this question: Has the race in-
miscarriage of democracy is due, he thinks, to herited the feeling for rhythm to such an extent
the influence of Rousseau. In consequence of that Whitman's indifference to this shall of itself
that influence, the spirit of Montesquieu's de- consign him to oblivion? That much of Whit-
mocracy, where every man could say “ My coun man's work will be forgotten, except to be occa-
try," has yielded to a spirit in which every man sionally rediscovered in a doctoral dissertation,
says " My self." Yet there is no need for the we may well believe; but there are other reasons
believer in a new democratic social order to be for what we think is a growing indifference to this
discouraged ; the cause has been not lost but poet of an outgrown democracy. Browning –
merely checked.
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Triggs has linked Whitman in a study of democ- Scripture is now and then communal, this may
racy in poetry-kept step, and indeed was one of have its bearing on the doctrine of inspiration.
our most skilful metrists; yet Browning's popu- In “ Democracy in Poetry,” Mr. Gummere
larity has of late very perceptibly waned, and the now undertakes to trace the democratic origins
centenary of his birth will, unless we are much of poetry, returning to the old problem of how
mistaken, arouse far less interest than it would das Volk dichtet: of what part the folk has
have done twenty years ago. Was there not played in the beginnings of poetry. The essence
in both Browning and Whitman a certain lack of folk-song is feeling; that of the poetry of the
of artistic restraint, a certain failure to appre- | individual is thought. Here again we hesitate
hend what is the true realm of poetry, which is to draw a line of sharp contrast ; for where does
a matter not only of rhythm but of atmosphere, feeling leave off and thought begin? Where
of truly heightened feeling?
does the “I” of songs like Deborah's cease to
On the other hand, Taine, hater of political be communal, as Wellhausen thinks it was, and
democracy as of unbridled license, is at the same begin to be individual, as it sounds to us? The
time the most resolute and extreme representative answer is not easy. That feeling, communally
of that democracy in science and in the theory fostered, came first, however, no one will deny.
of art that Whitman defied. He sought to ex | “To primitive man the community was ... the
plain poetry by convention, to ground the science promise and potency of all social advance, his
of it on the community alone. The flaw in such | hope of progress, the refuge of his baffled indi-
a doctrine, the lecturer rightly points out, is its | viduality"; one may add, constantly less baffled
hostility to the contribution of individual initia | as the race progressed.
tive. The genius of the individual poet cannot In the last chapter,“ Alma Poesis,"our author
be ignored.
undertakes to show how poetry has dealt with
In discussing - The Functional Origins of myth and religion, and how she fares to-day.
Poetry," Professor Gummere studies at some Just as recorded literature is late, he would have
length (as a typical source) the social or commu- | us believe that the myths of literature are late.
nal pang of death. When the lament for the Primitive myths, he holds, are of communal
dead came to be recorded, it had two elements : origin; and thus, through mythology, religion
the communal or choral and the personal. As itself traces its descent from the rhythms of
the latter waxed, the former waned. In time, swaying choral throngs. Less convincing is the
the expression of grief passed into a fourfold author's treatment of comedy and tragedy. “In
formula: the fact of death, the reminiscence, the very broad generalization it may be said that
questioning why, the appeal to come back. In the social group is the haunt of comedy, and
showing how from these threnodic elements, that tragedy is the path of the solitary poet."
through repetition, epic and narrative arose, This seems to us little less sweeping than
Professor Gummere traverses ground already | Buecher's contention that tragedy is entirely
covered in “ The Popular Ballad.” It is possible foreign to early man. Was not the death of
that he carries somewhat too far the contrast the boar-hunter, gored by the enraged animal,
between the centripetal or contracting and the tragic to the throng that chanted the communal
centrifugal or expanding tendencies. The an- lament (such as is studied in Chapter JV.)?
alogy of these two kinds of motion is suggestive, Following up his theory, Mr. Gummere is con-
but, beyond a certain point, we think, misleading. | fronted by the fact that one hundred out of three
As Professor Gummere himself says (page 202), | hundred and five ballads are purely tragic, and
almost from the outset the man who knew how is forced to conclude that all of these hundred
the artist -- was heard gladly by the throng. are modern in matter while ancient in form.
Did not the individual constantly reinforce the But is this conclusion necessary? It is not only
throng, interpret the thought of the throng ? | the single life that is tragic. The tribe may have
Did not the aristocracy grow out of, instead its tragedy, in the fall of the avalanche which
of being sharply contrasted to, the democracy? wipes out a village, the fatal onslaught of wild
Again, who are the throng, the commune? Are beasts, the defeat and slaughter by a hostile tribe.
they not in a sense the picked men of the tribe, It does not require the reflection of solitude to
its best brains and hearts, its leaders? And make these things tragic, for the personal lament
after all, is the difference between the individual | (page 298) from the start blends with that of
and the throng one of kind, or rather one of the throng.
degree of enthusiasm or inspiration? If the With what Mr. Gummere has to say on the
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plays a well-grounded and well-reasoned optim Or what has anyone to say to a man who in his
ism. In quoting his closing words, let us say desire to read a wind-metre on a mountain top
amen to the wish he expresses.
goes through this experience ? —
“This period of reaction has its poetry; but the mood | “On the last slope below the metre the wind simply
and the art of it are not permanent. As romance not played with me. I was overthrown, tripped, knocked
long ago leaped to life out of such a profound and death down, blown explosively off my feet and dropped. Some-
like swoon, so the democratic note of enthusiasm and times the wind dropped me heavily, but just as often it
faith will sound again, when and how we cannot tell, eased me down. I made no attempt to stand erect;
but in its right season, and in the large utterance which most of the time this was impossible and at all times it
hope always inspires. It is a pious wish that the poet was very dangerous. Now and then the wind rolled me
who takes up that harp once more may be a democrat as I lay resting upon a smooth place. Advancing was
of this western world.”
akin to swimming a whirlpool or to wrestling one's way
CLARK S. NORTHUP. up a slope despite the ceaseless opposition of a vigorous,
tireless opponent.
"At last I crawled and climbed up to the buzzing
cups of the metre. So swiftly were they rotating they
THE SPELL OF THE WILD.*
formed a blurred circle, like a fast-revolving life-
Mr. Enos Mills is becoming known as the
preserver. The metre showed that the wind was pass-
ing with a speed of from one hundred and sixty-five to
Prophet of the Great Rocky Mountains, -
one hundred and seventy miles an hour. The metre
using the word prophet in its proper sense of blew up – or, rather, flew to pieces, during a faster
interpreter of the spirit. He proudly recognizes spurt.”
Mr. John Muir as in certain respects his master, There are calmer chapters in the book than
and is following worthily in the footsteps of these, however. Two are devoted to beavers,
Mr. Muir and Mr. Burroughs, though with the and their work as conservationists” is so well
difference that he is more strictly a mountaineer described that every reader must echo Mr. Mills's
than either. His recent book, " The Spell of wish that this patient, persistent, faithful friend
the Rockies,” like his earlier “ Wild Life on the of man” might be protected. There is a good
Rockies," tells thrilling stories of his fearless story of a tramp dog, another of two young
life, — for he carries no arms in the wilds, grizzlies, a chapter on “ Dr. Woodpecker, Tree
meets electric storms on their own ground, Surgeon,” and others on tree-seeds and insects.
scales mountain peaks in the dark if need be, | What is said about the Wealth of the Woods —
and risks his life in a thousand ways in perfect the beneficence of forests in mastering high
confidence that Nature will take care of him. winds, moderating climate, holding moisture in
One cannot help wondering what Words their “fluffy little rugs” and thus creating
worth's Michael, whose mountain adventures deeper and steadier streams, and in holding and
are summed up in the words
gathering the rich soil which is a nation's chief
“He had been alone
asset — is especially eloquent. So is what is said
In the heart of many thousand mists,"
about the criminal waste of forests by unwise
would have to say to a man who tells a tale of cutting, and by forest fires; and the author is
a run for life with an avalanche, ending thus: apparently saved from invective against people
“ Battling breakers with a broken oar, or racing who are greedy or careless only by the perfect
with a broken skee, are struggles of short duration.
“ weathering” of his own disposition. What
The slide did not slow down, and so closely did it
crowd me that, through the crashing of trees as it
he suggests is this :
struck them down, I could hear the rocks and splin- “A mud flat might itself remark, The thoughtless
tered timbers in its mass grinding together and thud- lumberman who caused my downfall is now in Congress
ding against obstructions over which it swept. These urging river improvement,' and the shallow waters at the
sounds, and flying broken limbs, cried to me • Faster !' | big bend could add, Our once deep channel was filled
and as I started to descend another steep moraine I with soil from a fire-scourged mountain. The minister
threw away my staff and let go.' I simply flashed down whose vacation fire caused this ruin is now a militant mis-
the slope, dodged and rounded a cliff, turned awkwardly | sionary among the heathen of Cherry-Blossom land.""
into Aspen Gulch, and tumbled head over heels - into
Mr. Mills's book will be interesting to every.
safety. Then I picked myself up, to see the slide go
by within twenty feet, with great broken trees sticking
one; for boys it is ideal, for it combines the
out of its side, and a snow-cloud dragging above.”
fascination of truth with the verve and dash of
great adventure. It is well illustrated from
* THE SPELL OF THE Rockies. By Enos A. Mills.
With illustrations from photographs by the author. Boston:
photographs by the author. It makes one ac-
Houghton Mifflin Co.
quainted with a live, thorough-going out-door
PEOPLE OF THE Wild. By F. St. Mars. Illustrated.
man whose “ youthful dream was to scale peak
New York: The Outing Publishing Co.
A WINDOW IN ARCADY. By Charles Francis Saunders.
after peak, and from the earthly spires to see
Illustrated. Philadelphia : The Biddle Press.
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who has realized his dream. Best of all, it gives A dainty book for comfortable fireside read-
one confidence in Nature, through the confidence ing is Mr. Charles Francis Saunders's “A Win-
of a man who says of himself :
dow in Arcady.” The observations are of field,
“Years of training had given me great physical endur- | meadow, stream, and woodland, taken through
ance; and this, along with a peculiar mental attitude the year, beginning in January. Most of them
that Nature had developed in me from being alone in
were apparently made in Eastern Pennsylvania.
her wild places at all seasons, gave me a rare trust in
her and an enthusiastic though unconscious confidence in
The pathos of the dedication to the memory of
the ultimate success of whatever I attempted to accom the writer's wife," who shared with him these
plish out of doors."
Arcadian paths,” does not intrude upon the book
After such a book as Mr. Mills's, one dreads except to give it tenderness. There is much
opening another, for fear it may prove a disap good sense in the volume, and much humor.
pointment; but the first page of Mr. St. Mars's “ Most people who think themselves fond of na-
“ People of the Wild” proves such a dread un ture,” Mr. Saunders says, “yet make the mis-
founded. And of all the subjects one would ex- | take of keeping too much indoors when it rains.
pect to find unlikely, he chooses for his first story | If you have mackintosh and rubbers you are
the unlikeliest — namely, Magpies. But the wit weather-proof, and it is not meet that the ducks
with which the particular “ Downy One" in should put a man to shame.” There is a broad
question is hit off engages interest at once; and view of the points at which growing things touch
the nest-building and family-raising of this imp | human life, and grey-haired readers will be glad
of mischief and his wife are most entertaining. to find reminiscences of elderberry-tea, wild-
The scene of these stories is England or (of most cherry tonic, and musk-roses. But most notice-
of them) northern Scotland. Mr. St. Mars able is the delicacy of perception which sees
knows what a difference this makes, for of his every shade of color and turn of leaf, and notes
magpie he says:
every passing fragrance. Even the flowers
« All birds live in the strictest sense of the word, but “ that Julius Cæsar would have approved ” be-
I have never known a bird so cram-full of life in all my
cause they are “such as sleep o' nights,” are
days. He oozed life at every feather. There must have
been enough electricity in his being to run a sixteen-
distinguished from those that stay awake.
candle-power electric light for twelve hours out of the Very charming photographs amply illustrate
twenty-four. “Go' with him was the religion, and he gave the text.
May ESTELLE Cook.
every average Englishman who watched him for half
an hour the jumps. He had no repose in his make-up.
If he had lived in the U. S. A. he would have figured
as the national emblem. In England he was not under-
MODERN VIEWS OF MARTIN LUTHER.*
stood. In short, he was a " live proposition."
Other stories tell how a bob-cat, the sole sur Said Goethe to Eckermann: “For these
vivor of a wreck, terrorized a neighborhood of twenty years the public has been fighting over
“wild people” for some weeks; how a great white the question as to which is the greater poet,
owl from Russia, named “The White Night Schiller or myself, when it ought to be thankful
mare,” called forth all the wit of birds, weasels, enough that it has such a pair of fellows to
and even roedeer, but was finally done to death fight over.” No invidious comparisons need to
by the grip of a pole-cat; how a wolverene es be set up between these simultaneous lives of
caped from a menagerie in which he had been Luther, for both are works of true distinction,
dubbed « The Saint,” and held all the good highly honorable to American scholarship, ade-
Scotch gamekeepers at bay for a winter; and quately illustrated, with an almost identical
how a “ long dog ” trained as a poacher set up
grouping of matter in the chapters, and present-
business for himself and throve on his cunning. ing a very satisfactory agreement in the main
The stories are wittily told — not brutally—and results — studies which may well fix the place of
make for sympathy with all animal life. One Luther for, say, the next thirty years, inasmuch
of the best is about a raven, the Master Rogue, as each generation demands a sympathetic but
“ whose beak was a coal-hammer, no less ; his modern handling of so large a subject. Both of
carriage the carriage of a swashbuckler, and in these splendid volumes trace Luther's sweeping
the eye — the cruel, insolently humorous eye progress in becoming the unique leader of the
was the leer of evil, not without courage, made
* THE LIFE AND LETTERS OF MARTIN LUTHER. By
manifest.” This avian Mephistopheles decoyed Preserved Smith, Ph.D. Illustrated. Boston: Houghton
a collector into watching a dummy nest all sum-
Mifflin Co.
MARTIN LUTHER, THE MAN AND HIS WORK. By Arthur
mer, while he and his wife safely kept their real
Cushman McGiffert. Illustrated. New York: The Century
house a mile away.
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revolutionary forces of the sixteenth century, sources or weigh authorities, but there are many
viewing him in connection with the general signs that the solidest foundations lie hidden be-
framework and the significant tides of world low the surface. The word translated injury”
history, and showing clearly that the crashing on page 104 might better be rendered “insult ”:
downfall of the Roman church-power was not Luther's Bible gets something more than its dues
due to any sudden act of intolerable tyranny, as an original creation. The September-Testa-
but came because the gradually increasing load ment of 1522 is not a “ large” folio (an almost
had reached the breaking-strain. The essential perfect specimen of this first in the long line of
character of this period as an outburst of the Luther-Bibles, once belonging to Pastor Goeze
democratic spirit, when the common man be- of Hamburg, is one of the treasures of the New-
lieved that he was at last coming into his rights, berry Library in Chicago).
is emphasized in both. Neither of them touches | How complete a Man this Luther is, as shown
on that most interesting theme, Tindale's close in these clear pages! Those who deny the effec-
relation to Luther, and, accordingly, on the tual influence of any individual upon the course
Lutheran elements in our English Bible — a of events should study the life of Martin Luther:
subject for which important materials have been he has printed clearly and almost indelibly the
offered by Jacobs, Eadie, and Bishop Westcott. stamp of his virile mind upon the vast popular
Dr. Smith's work seems especially good in thinking of all the ages since his day. In these
tracing organic developments, and in its stress of times when the deepest motives have so largely
emphasis. It is absolutely free from any tinge lost their hold, how, satisfying it is to enter into
of controversialism, the author going to the full full communion with the inmost life of one to
limit of personal reticence. Dr. Smith's admir- whom, in truth, Religion is the Chief Concern!
able scholarship goes to the ultimate sources Luther was large enough to value the humanities,
and lays them open remorselessly; his extreme but all other interests faded into littleness com-
moderation of statement is one born of a mas-pared with his passionate hunger and thirst after
terful certainty of fact. He has a healthy righteousness. To this supreme loyalty of his
Anglo-Saxon independence of tradition, and faithful soul he was every hour prepared to offer
shows other traits which are a refreshing cor- up all other goods. Nor can we fail to note, as
rective to certain too-well-known qualities of a part of his loyal nature, his intense German
German erudition.
nationalism, the deep love for his own people,
The 426 pages of this inviting work are a mas- which has had such immense influence upon the
terpiece of condensation. Its chief merit is its development of that people into an independent,
directness; it is adequate, precise, unsparing, self-conscious nation.
cumulative, and final; it has a frank and fearless | Luther, as shown so truly in the pages of these
tone which does full honor to the exacting motto bookis, stands for all time as the champion of the
of its title-page:
integrity of personal conviction. He refused to
“Nothing extenuate,
be damned or brushed aside by any or all of those
Nor set down aught in malice."
easy popular categories which classify men auto-
There is a rare feeling for style, or rather (in a matically, without inquiry into the grounds of
work which offers such a mass of translated docu- individual action. On the heels of conviction
ments) for styles, which raises these difficult ver came his ample speaking-out of the whole truth
sions to the plane of independent creations. To | in the bluntest way, with homely proverbial vigor
the above, we must add an appreciation of the that hit the nail squarely on the head. If
author's neat and admirably restrained wit. there be anything which corruption and pretence
Professor McGiffert's work is conceived in a dreads, it is the naming of things by their right
broad and logical spirit, and written in a march- names ; and this was Luther's clarifying service
ing style which never fails to engage the interest in an age of tyranny: he “ called” the arrogance
of the reader. It is an excellent synthesis which of a gigantic system of “ graft.” Against all
makes Luther the embodiment of assurance in blandishments and threats he put up an iron
an age of doubt and fear; certain of the author's resistance ; again and again in the very face of
final explanations of events strike one as over- | death he presented a front of absolute integrity.
ingenious and subjective. There seems to be a | Little wonder that a task like this begot a life-
somewhat timidous anxiety about giving offense and death earnestness, that the dutiful monk
to anybody.
soon made a thorough breach with humility,
Being a work obviously designed “not for silence, and submission. And yet it is perhaps
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not harden into narrow one-sidedness; he hated Luther spent in seriously arguing the binding
sybarites, but affected no stoicism; his earnest | authority of the saying, “ Thou art Peter." He
ness is offset by a liberal share of the joy of liv took the Scriptures as a unit, and a simple 6 God
ing ; his forbearance is as deep as his polemic is said " was the end of reasoning. Even the fixed
intense; his irresistible dry irony (as in the dedi lodestar of Luther's complete theological system,
cation of his tract on Christian Liberty to Pope “The just shall live by faith,” derives from that
Leo X.) by no means yields the palm to that of minimal member of the whole guild of minor pro-
Mark Twain.
phets, Habakkuk. The worst flaw in Luther's
If to our inadequately phrased tribute to this integrity lies in the fact that he joined to this
supremely great man we add that his life and in servile bibliolatry a twisting of Scripture-texts,
fluence have their seamy side, we shall merely which stultified his attacks upon Catholic prac-
sbow some understanding of the ways of human tices, and a fierce higher criticism which dis-
development. Much of what he called in grandi counted even the Fourth Commandment. He
ose terms “a tragedy of God and Satan” shrinks debased the currency of mind by a desperate
to the dimensions of a rather sorry puppet-play, attempt violently to reconcile obvious verbal
when set upon the stage of universal history. His statements with modern ethical demands. “We
perfervid Christianity made him unjust toward must not trifle with the articles of faith so long
“ heathen” culture (notably in his hatred of and unanimously held by Christendom,” he ex-
Aristotle), and over-serious in his attitude to claims ; but this canon proved itself sadly un-
ward the Fathers. His crass indecency of lan- | helpful when he applied it against the New
guage, common to the age, is more pardonable Astronomy, for example.
than his vulgar concession : “ Our burning de “I was instructed," writes Luther in telling
sires cannot be restrained”; “ chastity is not in of his interview with Cardinal Cajetan near the
our power” – a begging of the whole question beginning of his public career, " that to teach
which has much to answer for in all later times. the truth is the same as to disturb the Church."
His crude superstition is very unlovely; so is The Cardinal was right; and the burning ques-
his narrow intolerance of religious variation, tion remains, whether, after all, such an upheaval
more particularly his pig-headed ugliness toward is worth the cost. Must the consolations of relig-
the good Zwingli. His occasional defence and ion be guarded by ignoring truth? Smugor timid
practice of lying are not ingratiating, neither can souls who identify their fixed Christianities with
we admire a faith which is ready to swallowdam absolute virtue and the stability of the social
nable injustice and iniquity on God's part.” framework, will answer that new unblended light
When we add that this rock of steadfastness on must be ruinous to weak human eyes. Luther
one or two occasions exhibited a humble and hu sublimely staked all values upon the cause of
miliating tergiversation, we say nothing worse unqualified truth, and the violence and horrors
than that our hero was made of true human stuff. which followed his protest were not too high a
The forever fatal and costly error of Luther price. Instead of wrecking the imagined pillars
lay in his easy substitution of an inerrant“ Word which prop up a pretended shallow and solid
of God” for infallible popes and councils. He firmament, he disclosed starry heavens of infinite
broke with the latter because, as he bravely put depth and glory, whose radiant orbs swing and
it,“ they have often erred and contradicted them sing in pure spaces, far remote from man's offi-
selves," and his failure to apply the same test cious solicitudes as to their upholding. If a
to the former is still an influence which works “protestant” be by historical derivation one who
woe upon the thinking and living of millions who resists the fettering of the human mind and the
follow after. The "plain text” which “cannot be shutting of those doors of freedom which lead
wrenched by argument” had for him a fatal to an expansion of the rigid Faith of Our
finality in paralyzing judgment and stultifying Fathers, and to a going on toward a better phil-
wisdom in the presence of the Bible, that ven osophy and religion, let every true man glory in
erable and perilous collection of scriptures. He this name. Let us bear in mind, above all, that
accepted and based important arguments upon it is not the final value of Luther's doctrines
the most childlike biblical fables, and not merely which makes us forever his debtors, but the
in philosophical but also in ethical matters he heartening example which he sets of that supreme
was led by this method into deplorable by-ways. courage which dares to challenge, heartily and
“Let us not try to be better than Abraham,” full of a higher faith, “the deliberate, ancient,
is his sentence in discussing wedlock. One al- almost universal opinion of mankind.”
most weeps in thinking of the working-time which
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"THE SEASONS” OF A LATER Thomson.*
their relation to, and exemplification of, general
principles of evolutionary biology. This is done
To the professional biologist, very little of the
in the least didactic of ways ; indeed, many a
output of the professional “ nature” writer is casual reader will pursue his interested way to
of any particular interest. This is in part due
the last page without ever realizing that this is
to a perfectly natural and human desire on the one of the best books on Evolution that has yet
biologist's part to take his fiction and his science
been written, - just as a teacher whom I know
each neat. But more particularly it is due to
regularly puts his elementary classes through
the fact that generally the “nature" writer only
nearly the whole of the differential calculus witb-
deals with those aspects of living things which
out ever mentioning that dread name, or other-
the biologist knows to be, on the whole, the least
wise letting the students know how basely they
interesting. Wonderful as the pageant of the
are being imposed upon. Only a great teacher
living world is in all its myriad charms of color, can do this, whether the subject be biology or
form, birth, and growth, it is only as we seek,
mathematics.
and in some measure find, the meaning of it all,
Each of the four parts is opened with an
the guiding principles which underlie it, that
“impressionistic sketch” of the season with
real interest takes the place of kaleidoscopic
which the part has to do. Spring is the time
wonderment. Here is where much “nature-
of new things; Summer the time when the "fires
writing” and “nature-study” fail. Only once
of life burn brightest ”; Autumn is the “year's
in a very great while will the philosophic insight
curfew and its vespers”; and Winter the time
of the trained biologist be found coupled in one
of sleep and death. These characterizations are
person with the freshness of vision, naïve sym-
clever, and show literary skill as well as ph ilo
pathy and literary skill of the artist.
sophic grasp. Thus it is said of Spring :
That such a combination, if rare, is still
« It is the time of giving birth to new lives. It is the
possible, is evidenced by Professor J. Arthur
time when new lives, begun long since, indeed begin to
Thomson's “ Biology of the Seasons.” The be. In all these young lives there is what is new; no
popular writings of its author on biological sub one of them is quite like its parents, but each carries
jects have for a long time occupied a leading
with it the promise of better or worse; in the phrase of
the biologists, this is the time of variations. It may be,
place among works of this class in the English
indeed, that the newness is simply that what was of evil
language. But the present book, considered as in the parents has been forgiven in their children, which
a piece of literature, quite overshadows in ex is cause for rejoicing; but sometimes it is that the little
cellence all of his earlier work. Writing in the
child-be it human or water-baby-really leads the race,
preface of what a biological account of the sea-
as was said long ago. It may be, of course -- there's
the rub - that the promise is never fulfilled, for the
sonal pageant should be, he says : “ The ideal playful lamb which we all so much admire grows into
would be to study the organismal drama of the a very stolid sheep, (man has such a way of making
year with the sympathetic feeling of the old nat young things stupid); the very active-minded chick
uralists, such as Gilbert White, with Darwin's
becomes a most matter-of-fact hen; the 'promising'
young anthropoid becomes a careworn, abruti, and rather
dominant sense of correlation and evolution, and
cross-grained, elderly ape. Need we point the moral ?
with Spencer's grasp of the Unity of Science.” The fact — at once hopeful and tragic -- is that the
He modestly disclaims having got very far on young life is often ahead of its race. If the promise
toward this high and right ideal, but actually be fulfilled, then the world makes progress, and that is
the book measurably approaches it.
Spring."
“ The Biology of the Seasons ” is not a nat-
Again, after characterizing Winter as the sea-
uralist's diary or commonplace book. It does son of death and elimination by natural selection,
not attempt to catalogue the doings of the liv-
the discussion is turned to races which have be-
ing things at any particular spot throughout the
come extinct in the history of the world. The
year. On the contrary it is a delightful series
conclusion is :
of essays on evolution, for which the varying
“ Thus from the elimination now observable around
us in this wintry season our thoughts naturally pass to
events and the changing population of the
the great world-wide process, continuous since life began,
seasons furnish the texts. “ Caterpillars,"
which embraces us also in its inexorable sifting. It does
“ Spring Flowers,” “ The Courtship of Birds," not, indeed, explain us, nor the organisms we know, any
“The Ephemerides,” “The Palolo-worm," "The more than the pruning-hook explains the tree; but given
White Winter Coat,” all these, and many other
life and growth, we cannot understand our history or that
of living creatures apart from elimination. In short we
matters, are so dealt with as to bring out clearly
need our Winter to explain Summer, and this perhaps
*THE BIOLOGY OF THE SEASONS. By J. Arthur Thomson. is the only consolation which the biologist can suggest
Illustrated by William Smith. New York: Henry Holt & Co. I to the discontented, that the alternation of Summer and


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II.
Winter is part of the mechanism which has made the enthusiasm, and a modest knowledge of French.”
history of the world a progressive development." Four hundred and more pages of travel incident and
The limitations to quoting from the book are description, of dialogue and various sorts of toward
imposed by the space to be had in a review, and and untoward happenings, all most copiously illus-
not by availability of material. The book is trated with views taken on the way and exhibiting
ornamented, though not illustrated as is stated
both the nature of the country, its buildings, its flocks
on the title-page to be the case, by twelve color
and fields, and its inhabitants, furnish the reader
prints from paintings by William Smith, some
with entertainment for more than one evening, and
| with not a few bits of new knowledge; for it was no
of which are excellent. The book is adequately
main travelled road that these tourists chose in invad-
indexed. It is a notable contribution to the liter-
| ing Africa with their petroleum car. Nevertheless,
ature of living Nature. Its place on the book-
the roads travelled by them were found to be surpris-
shelf is between - The Natural History of
ingly good, extending to all parts of both hill country
Selborne” and Thoreau's “Walden," on the and plain. The volume is indexed, provided with a
one side, and “The Origin of Species ” on the map, and decoratively bound in neat and serviceable
other side.
buckram.
RAYMOND PEARL.
Having described in a former work the chief
cities of Umbria, Mr. Edward Hutton now invites
our sympathetic interest in those of Venetia, chief
among which, of course, is the Bride of the Adriatic.
HOLIDAY PUBLICATIONS.
More than half of his book, in fact, on “ Venice
and Venetia," is devoted to the charms of Venice,
Books OF TRAVEL AND DESCRIPTION.
whose art and architecture, legends and traditions,
The very aroma of the Orient exhales from the might easily have monopolized the entire volume.
pages of Professor A. V. Williams Jackson's fine But Treviso and Bassano, Padua and Vicenza and
volume, “From Constantinople to the Home of Omar Verona, and other places of interest, are visited in
Khayyam : Travels in Transcaucasia and Northern turn and made to yield their portion of story and
Persia for Historic and Literary Research” (Mac description for the reader's entertainment. One of
millan). The cordial reception given to his “Persia, the closing chapters, entitled “Two Poets and the
Past and Present” has encouraged the author, Euganean Hills,” has to do chiefly with Petrarch
he says, “ to describe the first half of two subse and Shelley. The writer's love of and admiration
quent journeys made through northern Iran, Trans for Italy speak in all his pages, and especially at the
caspia, and Turkistan in 1907 and 1908 for the pur- end of the book, where he does not hesitate to refer
pose of scholarly research.” The present volume to her people as having “created and preserved
describes the journey along the Black Sea and into | Europe and given us all that is worth having in the
Russian Asia; a companion volume, to appear later, world, and shall yet if need be - and there will be
will cover the territory traversed beyond the Caspian need — secure it to us again.” Fourteen delicately
and into the heart of Asia. Nothing is either too beautiful colored illustrations are supplied by Mr.
ancient or too modern to engage the attention of the Maxwell Armfield, and twelve other pictures from
learned traveller. Oil-wells and pre-historic ruins photographs are added. The compact volume is as
are alike, though in varying degrees, objects of in- full of excellent matter as is a nut full of meat.
terest to him. More than two hundred illustrations (Macmillan.)
from photographs besprinkle the book, which has Miss Anne Hollingsworth Wharton adds to her
also a beautiful colored frontispiece view of the tomb list of travel books one on the castles of France. “In
of Omar Khayyam and a folding map, with occa- | Château Land” (Lippincott) describes, in the form
sional smaller charts and an index. The handsome of letters to a friend, the summer wanderings of the
cover design repeats the frontispiece, which is again writer, in company with certain others occasionally
reproduced on the wrapper. Decidedly, the book referred to as Miss Cassandra, Lydia, Walter, and
is intended to perpetuate the memory of him who the children, among the romantic châteaux of fair
lies buried near Nishapur.
France. A few of the chapter-headings will indi-
What the French have accomplished in making a cate, in some sort, the nature of the book, which agree-
considerable portion of northern Africa a desirable ably mingles description with history and legend
region for motor-tourists, and how much is still left and literary association. “An Embarrassment of
in its primitive condition, may be agreeably learned Châteaux " is the title of the opening chapter or let-
from Mrs. Emma Burbank Ayer's volume of travel ter, which is written in northern Italy, whence the
sketches, “A Motor Flight through Algeria and party passes to Switzerland, and then into France.
Tunisia” (McClurg). Her husband accompanied The city of Tours occupies another chapter, Amboise
her, and an expert chauffeur ran the car. Of course still another, Blois furnishes an excuse for some
a camera — two, in fact-formed an indispensable pages on Louise de la Vallière and other characters
part of their luggage, and the writer also claimed as of note, while Orleans inevitably recalls the immor-
a portion of her equipment“perfect health, boundless tal Maid. Twenty-five good photo-engravings are


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supplied, and the book has a typical château on its Christian, Byzantine, and other rare and little-known
front cover. The style of the narrative is of the early manuscripts, most of which are difficult of ac-
bright and agreeable and unlabored sort familiar to cess, and yet, as the author puts it, “have vital sig-
Miss Whartou's readers.
nificance as marking stages in the development of
The latest book on Wordsworth is by the Reverend the art." Mr. Herbert's point of view is that of the
Eric Robertson, Vicar of St. John's, Windermere, its archæologist and historian rather than that of the
full title being “ Wordsworth and the English Lake connoisseur and art critic. For example, in what
Country: An Introduction to a Poet's Country” (Ap he has to say about Byzantinism he is less concerned
pleton). The tone of the book is frankly topographi with the quality of its art than with the fact that it
cal, an effect which is confirmed by the excellent was the conserving force that kept the traditional
maps which it contains. There are also forty-seven composition of sacred themes intact for centuries;
illustrations, from drawings by Mr. Arthur Tucker, and he notes that early in the first half of the sixth
R.B.A., giving interesting views of various scenes century the iconography of scenes in the life of Christ
and localities included in the volume. There is also had become settled into fixed conventions. The re-
a concordance of Wordsworth's references to persons lations between the different styles and the influences
and places pictured or described. Two long and in under which the artists worked have been kept con-
teresting letters are here published for the first time- stantly in mind in writing the long series of descrip-
one from Wordsworth to Lord Lonsdale, and another tions of manuscripts that make up the volume. Only
from Dorothy to the poet—both showing how in later in one instance does a probable source of inspiration
years they were stung into a mood of thought far dif- appear to have been overlooked. The Simeon Meta-
ferent from the aloofness to the world that reigned phrastes manuscript in the British Museum, says Mr.
in early days at Dove Cottage. The book is well Herbert, "irresistibly reminds everyone who sees it
worth adding to any collection of Wordsworthiana. for the first time of some Oriental pattern-work and
With noteworthy additions and one judicious especially of Persian carpets or enamels." Strangely
suppression, the sketches and fantasies making up enough, Mr. Herbert does not perceive the resem-
Charles Warren Stoddard's “In the Footprints of the blance to contemporary Persian manuscripts. The
Padres” are now re-issued, ten years after their first chapters upon the later history of illumination are
appearance, by their original publisher, Mr. A. M. most comprehensive, though in dealing with periods
Robertson of San Francisco. Twenty-four illustra when the material is superabundant the descriptions
tions, chiefly from old prints and photographs, help have necessarily been limited to manuscripts of un-
to restore to the eye of memory or imagination the usual merit. Of technical information, the book
now obliterated landmarks known to Stoddard and contains virtually none. The reader who wishes to
celebrated by his pen. His friend, Mr. Charles know what pigments were used, and how they were
Phillips, supplies an Introduction, designating the prepared and applied, must look elsewhere. Seldom
editorial changes and additions to the volume, and is there any information given as to the size of the
dwelling appreciatively on a few of its and its author's | manuscripts described. The illustrations consist
more striking characteristics. For its autobiographic of fifty-one plates; one in color, the others in collo-
value, as well as for its service in preserving so much | type. The subjects have been selected with excellent
of the vanishing or vanished California of the last judgment, and the reproductions, though small in
century, the book, especially in this enlarged and gen scale, are sharp and clear. There are ample indices
erously illustrated form, is one of more than passing and a select bibliography of works that the author
note.
has found useful.
HOLIDAY ART Books.
Mr. G. Griffin Lewis's “Practical Book of Oriental
The latest addition to “The Connoisseurs' Li- | Rugs” (Lippincott) does not belie its title. From
brary” (Putnam) is a scholarly treatise on “Illumi cover to cover it is packed with detailed information
nated Manuscripts,” by Mr. J. A. Herbert of the compactly and conveniently arranged for ready refer-
British Museum. It is the fruit of minute and ence. Many people who are interested in the beau-
painstaking investigation that has extended to the tiful fabrics of which the author treats, but have not
examination of all the important manuscripts in pub the time or the opportunity to acquire the intimate
lic and private collections in Europe and America, knowledge of the rug expert, have long wished for
and the voluminous literature that has grown up such a book as this, and will be grateful to Mr. Lewis
about them. The history of the illumination of vel for writing it. The work is divided into two parts.
lum manuscripts is traced“ from classical times down In the first are set forth with painstaking care such
to the decay and virtual disuse of the art which re things as the characteristics of the different weaves,
sulted inevitably, though not immediately, from the the materials used and the differences between them,
introduction of printing.” So far as existing mate the considerations that determine value, tests of age
rials allow, the development of the various styles has and quality, and how the intending buyer should ex-
been followed out, though the scantiness of these amine rugs. There is a serviceable chapter on the
materials for some sections and periods made the best methods of taking care of rugs, and an elaborate
task a hard one. Of especial service to students of presentation in an alphabetical list, with brief descrip-
illumination for whose guidance the book has been tions and suggestive drawings, of the different designs
written are the detailed accounts of Classical, Early I used by the Oriental weavers, and also an attempt


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to give the symbolic meaning of each pattern. In The year 146 B. C., when Corinth was taken by
this the author treads upon debatable ground; but Mummius and its accumulated art treasures either
as he is not writing for students of mythology, there destroyed or carried to Rome, is adopted by Mr.
is little need to examine all of his statements closely. | H. B. Walters in his elaborate work on “ The Art
Of real worth is the chapter upon the identification of of the Romans” (Macmillan) as the natural point
rugs. The salient points of the better-known weaves of division between Greek and Roman art. A former
are named in the order of their importance for the work by Mr. Walters has already traced the history
purpose of assisting the student in differentiating; of Greek art down to the subjugation of Greece by
and in an admirably arranged table the distinguish Rome, so that the present treatise forms a fitting se-
ing features of all rugs are shown. Especially useful quel to that, and assumes in the reader a general
are the descriptions, with accompanying illustrations, knowledge of its contents. Beginning with a brief
of the backs of all the rugs that have a distinctive survey of early Roman art and its origins in Etruria,
weave. As every experienced person knows, the ex- the author then takes up Roman architecture, Roman
pert gets a considerable part of his information from sculpture (under Augustus and later), Roman paint-
the backs of rugs, and the inclusion of data upon ing and mosaic, gem-engraving and metal-work, pot-
this detail is essential to a comprehensive treatment tery and terra-cotta, and, finally, Roman art in the
of the subject. The second part of the book is devoted provinces. A brief chronological table and an index
to descriptions of the rugs made in different localities. are added. The full-page plates, seventy-two in num-
The student will find in these descriptions just the ber, are from photographs. Twelve smaller illus-
things he needs to know. Of course no book can trations are given in the text. The large-octavo
supply all that is necessary to complete knowledge; size of the book is turned to good account by the
that can come only through actual handling of a large illustrator, and in other respects the work is con-
number of the rugs themselves under reliable guid- ceived and executed on a generous scale.
ance. But Mr. Lewis has probably come as near as The French, asserts Mr. Charles H. Caffin, the
anyone can toward furnishing an efficient printed aid. eminent art critic and art historian, “ have been
The illustrations, as well as the text, are of practical the only race since the Italians of the Renaisance
value. Ten of them are in color. For the most part and the Greeks of antiquity to whom art in its
the rugs reproduced are not rare museum pieces, but various forms is a natural and inevitable expression
ordinarily fine examples such as can with care and of what is for the time being their attitude toward
knowledge be bought to-day in the open market. life.” Appropriately, therefore, he seeks, in his
In spacious quarto form, with innumerable care “ Story of French Painting” (Century Co.), to
fal reproductions, colored and plain, “ Portraits of | correlate the growth of that painting “ with the
Dante, from Giotto to Raffael,” by Professor Richard changes in the social and political life of the nation
Thayer Holbrook, is imported by Houghton Mifflin and with the manifestations of the esprit gaulois
Co. The work, as announced on its title-page, is in other departments of intellectual and artistic
“a critical study, with concise iconography," and activity, particularly in that of literature." A some-
must have involved years of devoted labor and a what ambitious undertaking, this, for a brief popular
high order of connoisseurship in Italian art and its survey of French art; but within the limit of its
history. The Dante portraits held in highest re two hundred and a score pages, divided chronolog-
pute have been reduced to a common scale and dis- ically into twenty chapters, the book renders excel-
played in two or threes, the better to enable the lent service to the art-loving reader interested in the
reader to compare them and to determine, as far as general and more largely significant aspects of a
may be, whether they are original and authentic nation's art. Numerous process-print illustrations,
likenesses, or mere copies or adaptations. Of course contending as best they can against the difficulties
the Giotto profile of Dante, the familiar eyeless of reproducing in black and white the general fea-
portrait, engages our chief interest; and Professor tures of paintings, are supplied as called for by the
Holbrook's account of its recovery in 1840, of the | text; and a full index closes the volume, which in
leading part played by an American art lover in style and compass resembles the same author's
accomplishing this recovery, of the accident that “Story of Dutch Painting” and “Story of Spanish
explains the loss of the eye in the likeness, and Painting.”
of much else connected with the famous portrait, The arts and crafts of the many peoples composing
forms an important and very readable section of the Empire of Austria-Hungary are certainly not
the book. Supplementing the twenty-one chapters lacking in variety, nor do they fall short in technical
“from Giotto to Raffael," comes appended matter of excellence. “ Peasant Art in Austria and Hungary ”
importance, including an elaborate descriptive cata (John Lane), a profusely illustrated work edited by
logue of more than a hundred notable Dante like Mr. Charles Holme, reveals a suprising range of in-
nesses not discussed in the body of the work, and a dustry in the decorative arts as practised by the het-
careful bibliography. A full index completes the erogeneous population of that country. Nofewer than
volume. The appearance of so important a con- seventeen nationalities enter into the composition of
tribution to the study of Dante is an event of no Austria proper, divisible into three main groups,
small moment, and Professor Holbrook has made all the German-speaking portion, the Slavs, and the less
Dante students his debtors.
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and Roumanians. Hungary presents greater homo arranged, and annotated” by Mr. B. W. Matz, is
geneity, but even here we have Saxons and other races imported by the Baker & Taylor Co. An interesting
as well as Magyars. Consequently, in the embroid preface by the editor explains his reason for refrain-
ery, bead-work, lace-making, wood-carving, pottery, ing from adding any of the abundant later material
rug-weaving, and other domestic arts and crafts pro with which a centenary edition of this famous Dick-
secuted by the peasantry, one finds rich material for ens biography might easily be enlarged. The sur-
study. Different writers and specialists contribute viving members of the family wished the original
to the descriptive chapters accompanying the various work to remain untouched. But the numerous and
pictured specimens of this peasant art. Colored re- well-chosen illustrations make the book a new one
productions serve well to convey an idea of the pic even to those who have read it before. The text is
turesque folk-costumes, and of the bright beauty of that of Forster's revised two-volume edition, and is
the textile manufactures of the people, and of their here also divided into two substantial octavos.
embroideries and certain other sorts of decorative The most elaborate and splendidly ornate presen-
work. The volume is issued in paper covers, which tation of Tennyson's “Princess ” that the season has
many purchasers will be glad to replace with a taste- witnessed and there have been at least three such
ful binding in harmony with the book's contents. appearances is that which enjoys the prestige of
Mr. Howard Chandler Christy's name as illustrator,
HOLIDAY EDITIONS OF OLD FAVORITES.
with the Bobbs-Merrill Co. as publishers. Large
Sympathetic interpretation of White's “Selborne" quarto in form, the book shows innumerable examples
speaks in the numerous admirable colored drawings, of Mr. Christy's well-known art, emphasis being
by Mr. George Edward Collins, that greet one in a placed, not unfittingly, on the female figures of the
handsome and generously-dimensioned edition of the metrical story. The full page plates glow with a veri-
classic work now offered by the Macmillan Company. tably barbaric wealth of color, the marginal and other
“ The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne illustrations being in pen-and-ink with but occasional
in the County of Southampton” has surely never slight dashes of red. Three cover-designs — for
found itself more worthily published than in this book, box, and wrapper — vie with one another in
latest re-issue. A distant view of the little village richness. Not even an East-Indian princess could
where Gilbert White lived is given in the frontispiece, desire more gorgeous trappings.
and a near prospect of its main street in a later pic The reading public's early and rather persistent
ture, while skilful representations of birds and their obtuseness to the merits of “Lorna Doone” has long
haunts, and of other natural objects, are of frequent since been generously atoned for; and still the pay-
occurrence. The quaintness and quietness of old Sel ing of this deferred debt to genius is going on, each
borne could hardly have been better pictured than Christmas season being pretty sure to bring forth a
by Mr. Collins. The fair, broad pages of the book new edition, or at least a new printing, of the ad-
and the wide margins are a delight to the eye, and mirable Exmoor romance. The American publishers
this amplitude of dimension contributes no little to who, twenty-one years ago, played the part of “fair
the satisfactoriness of the full-page plates. A striking knights of the order of Copyright” and took Lorna
contrast we have here to the earlier issues of this mod. | under their chivalrous protection, put forth this year
est work from the pen of an obscure country parson. a very attractive edition of the novel in two small
The great popularity of Southey's “Life of Nel- volumes, illustrated with excellent views from the
son” is attested by the forty entries of the book, in region where the scene of the story is laid, and
various editions, in the British Museum catalogue. neatly boxed. Blackmore's preface to the authorized
At least fifty-seven printings of the book have been “Exmoor” edition of 1890 is given in autograph,
traced in England, and its republication in other and also in print. (G. P. Putnam's Sons.)
countries has been extensive. Emphatically it is the A few years ago there came from the genius of
life of the famous hero, and Mr. John Masefield does a woman who hid her identity under the pen-name
well to edit this year a fine new issue of the biog- of “ Michael Fairless" a book of intimate reflection,
raphy, illustrated in color by Mr. Frank Brangwyn, “ The Road-Mender,” which was at once welcomed
the eminent artist, who has himself been made the by an appreciative, if limited, group of readers. Since
subject of a notable book of the season. His seven then, the unique quality of the book, its broad but
large colored plates illustrating events in Nelson's calm outlook, combining a knowledge of the world
life are strikingly original in character. A colored with a will to do without much of what the world
portrait of Nelson, after Singleton, appears as front holds desirable or indispensable, has commended it
ispiece and also on the cover. Mr. Masefield's to an ever-widening circle. This season brings forth
Introduction to the “Life” presents briefly a few | a new edition from Messrs. E. P. Dutton & Co., in
important and interesting facts concerning its author, a form which aims to be worthy of the work. Col-
its subject, and the book itself. It is an added pleas ored illustrations by Mr. E. W. Waite bring to the
ure to read this well-tested work in so sumptuous a eye the veritable roads on which the road-mender
form.
plied his trade while he reflected on the issues of life,
A timely new edition of John Forster's “Life and show us the cottage where he had his “luxuries
of Charles Dickens,” with five hundred portraits, of life,” to wit, “a truckle bed, table, chair, and hugh
facsimiles, and other illustrations, all “collected, I earthenware pan.” Large type and wide margins


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add the finishing touch of utility as well as of beauty | appropriate colored pictures to the edition issued by
to this volume.
G. P. Putnam's Sons. The brilliant hues he so
Who but the Chaucer specialist ever reads “ The lavishly uses are not exactly those of real life; but
Romaunt of the Rose” in these days of hurry and neither are the actions of the Princess and her com-
worry and strenuous activity? Fragment though it is, panions. Smaller line drawings also accompany the
the length of this beautiful version of an old French text, which is beautifully printed on broad pages with
original repels many who can get through one or two wide margins. The cover-design is excellent.
of the “Canterbury Tales " very comfortably. Per-
haps with the pleasing colored illustrations provided
HOLIDAY FICTION.
by Mr. Keith Henderson and Mr. Norman Wilkin Admirers of Mr. Jeffery Farnol will welcome the
son, in a fine edition published by Messrs. Henry | holiday edition of his new story,“The Money Moon"
Holt & Co., even the unpersistent reader may be be | (Dodd, Mead & Co.). As “Small Porges,” — who
guiled into a perusal of the poem from beginning to breathes the ideal spirit of childhood — explains to
end. Twenty of these art creations, in plates of | his adopted uncle, George Bellew, a recently jilted
quarto size, adorn the book. A glossary is appended.
American millionaire, the Money Moon is the par-
The eight-syllable verse admits of two columns on ticular kind of moon which shines when one goes
a page, in large type. No handsomer edition of the forth to seek a fortune and finds it. In this case
“Romaunt," it is safe to say, has ever been issued. there is more than a fortune in money involved, for
The beauty and the fitness of Mr. Frederick Simp George Bellew is adopted by Porges just at the right
son Coburn's illustrations, both colored and plain, 1 time to enable him to save his nephew's Aunt Anthea
to the new Putnam edition of “The Chimes " fully from the clutches of a villain of the good old roman-
justify this presentation of Dickens's famous story in tically villainous type. All these characters, and the
a fresh dress to mark the recurrence of the season it beautiful English country in which their romance is
commemorates. In this artist's handling the familiar played, are, in this edition, pictured in faithful colors,
Dickens characters are freed from the grotesqueries | by Mr. A. I. Keller, who has fully achieved collabo-
and other more or less discordant peculiarities that ration with the author by the happiness of his ren-
have so often marked the illustrator's conceptions derings. The story is less elaborate and more closely
of the creatures of the great novelist's imagination. | knit than the author's previous volume, “The Broad
Wholly human and ingratiating, as they should be, Highway,” and will have an even wider appeal.
are the Trotty Veck and the Meg and Richard, and A tale of love, with just enough of roughness in
the other old favorites delineated by Mr. Coburn's the running of its course to prove it indubitably true
brush and pencil. Marginal decorations, a gilt and
love, makes the sort of reading that all the world is
colored cover-design, and full gilt edges are also craving every day in the year, and not least of all
among the attractions of this tasteful gift-book. at this particular season of the year. Mr. Ralph
There is an alliterative attraction in the very title Henry Barbour's “Joyce of the Jasmines ” (Lippin-
of “The Pocket Parkman” (Little, Brown & Co.)
cott) is just the story to relieve, temporarily, that
that accords well with the beauty and the desirability hungry feeling. The book is given a holiday appear-
of the twelve small and thin flexibly-bound vol ance by the excellent colored illustrations supplied
umes in which the historian's admirable series is by Mr. Clarence F. Underwood, who does justice to
now presented. The typography is of the excellence the heroine's charm and to the hero's prepossessing
already familiar to Parkman's readers, the thin qualities. Marginal decorations, more varied and
paper is perfectly opaque, and the limp morocco, unconventional than are often met with, are con-
stamped with a graceful design, is all that could be tributed by Mr. Edward Stratton Holloway. The
desired in the binding for a pocket volume. The large, clear type (that of our early reading-books at
new dress will attract new readers, and will tempt school) would almost cure eye-strain.
to a re-reading on the part of old ones.
After passing well beyond the hundred-thousand
Clear, open print and some well-drawn illustra mark without the adventitious aid of colored pictures
tions, with handsome binding and gilt top, contribute or decorative page-borders, “The Mistress of Shen-
to the desirability of the handy and inexpensive edi stone” (Putnam) now comes forth thus adorned to
tion of Goldsmith's “ Vicar of Wakefield" offered make fresh conquests. The eight full-page plates by
this year by the J. B. Lippincott Co. The bright Mr. F. H. Townsend make vivid to the eye of sense
coloring of Mr. H. M. Brock's pictures give them a those momentous situations which Mrs. Barclay's
festive appearance not unwelcome to some, and cer pen has caused to appeal so forcibly to the popular
tainly much in vogue at present. In this instance, imagination; and the cover-design and other decora-
be it said, the appeal to the eye is not made often tions of Miss Margaret Armstrong's designing are
enough to distract attention from the ever-fresh and pleasing and harmonious. An ornamented box en-
ever-fascinating story of the fortunes of the Prim- closes this elaborate re-issue of Mrs. Barclay's second-
rose family.
greatest success in romantic fiction.
Tennyson's “Princess" gives ample opportunity to A brave and loyal army officer, too poor to feel
the artist for the conception of striking and somewhat that he can honorably ask any woman to be his wife,
unusual effects in book-illustration. Mr. Everard and a charmingly wilful young widow, who unhesi-
Hopkins has seized this opportunity in his vivid and l tatingly spends her entire fortune of nearly twelve
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million dollars to create a situation, stupendous in its matter in hand. Portraits and other illustrations
nature and national in its scope, that makes it pos are supplied in abundance, and the typography is
sible for the strictly honorable army officer to ask of the best.
her to marry him, are the hero and heroine of Anne So well received was Mr. Henry S. Pancoast's
Warner's romance, “When Woman Proposes.” It “Standard English Poems "that he has felt encour-
is all delightfully possible and just as delightfully aged to adapt his compilation to the wider demand
improbable — exactly the satisfying sort of love of poetry-lovers in general, the earlier work having
story to fit the festive season. But further words been meant for school and college use. Accordingly
of praise for anything from the pen that wrote “ The Vista of English Verse" makes its appearance
“ The Rejuvenation of Aunt Mary” and the im from the same publishing house (Holt), with the trail
agination that created “Susan Clegg” are unne of the schoolmaster obliterated, the notes omitted,
cessary. Colored drawings are provided by Miss the form of the book rendered more artistic, and the
Charlotte Weber Ditzler, and tasteful decorations by Victorian section enlarged by the insertion of several
Mr. Theodore B. Hapgood. (Little, Brown & Co.) poems by recent and living writers. From early
"The Mahatma and the Hare” (Holt), by Mr. ballad verse to Mr. Alfred Noyes's “Call of the
H. Rider Haggard, gives in a most appealing and
Spring” and “Unity,”the volume includes a generous
realistic form the timid hare's views of the time- selection from all that is best in English poetry down
honored sport of animal-killing and animal-torture
to our own time. Excellent print, thin but opaque
as indulged in by our British cousins. It is a paper, full gilt edges, and a flexible cover in green
“dream-story,” as the title-page explains, and as
and gilt, are the material features of this compact
the narrative itself makes clear; but it is none the little volume of more than six hundred pages — one
less convincing for that, and may deservedly be
| of the best gift-books of verse that the season has
accorded a place beside Black Beauty "and similar produced.
animal stories with a humanitarian motive. Excel Both the head and the heart must give assent to
lent line drawings, to the number of twelve, help to the excellent arguments advanced in “The Feast of
give vividness to the hare's piteous tale.
St. Friend,” by Mr. Arnold Bennett, for the con-
In festive dress, with spirited illustrations in color
tinued observance of Christmas. A decline of the
by Mr. George W. Gage, and decorations by Mr.
Christmas spirit is noted by him (though perhaps if
Edward Stratton Holloway, “An Accidental Honey-
he observes the frightful crush of Christmas shop-
moon,” by Mr. David Potter, makes its enlivening
pers in our cities at this season he will change his
appearance at this holiday season. A hero, a heroine,
mind), and he writes to revive the good old customs
and a sailing yacht, with sundry complications and at
of Yuletide. To make these customs something more
last a happy ending, go to make up a tale of love
than formal, however, he would have us throughout
that few fiction-readers could begin without wishing
the year cultivate a spirit of friendship, a sympa-
to continue to the end ; and the publishers have done
thetic interest in those about us, that shall make the
their part to make this continuing highly agreeable.
annual festival a natural and spontaneous expression
The book has an ornamented cover and a slide case.
of our good-will. Although, to the pessimist in us
(Lippincott.)
all, to breathe is to suffer, and to think is to mourn,
and he alone is blest who ne'er was born, yet the
MISCELLANEOUS HOLIDAY Books.
opposite view of life has kept the world going for
Mr. Edward Legge, the biographer of the Em. countless centuries and will keep it going for countless
press Eugénie, has produced a companion volume on more; and the sane optimism and human kindliness
6. The Comedy and Tragedy of the Second Empire” of such books as “ The Feast of St. Friend" will aid
(Scribner), in which, he announces in his preface, the forward movement. (George H. Doran Co.)
" I have endeavored to portray some aspects of the From the sun-dialand the clepsydra tothe Waltham
Court and of Paris Society between 1852 and 1870,” or the Elgin watch and the new mammoth clock in
the earlier work having chiefly to do with “the lives the tower of the Metropolitan Life Building in New
of the Imperial Family in England.” Some space, York is a long stretch, which, however, Mrs. N.
however, is now devoted to the early life of both Hudson Moore's “Old Clock Book” (Stokes) cov-
Emperor and Empress, to their first acquaintance ers in a general way, with particular attention, of
with each other and their engagement, and to other course, to the tall timepieces that the book's title
details leading up to the important period especially | instantly summons before the mind's eye. Eli Terry
covered by the book. Accuracy the writer pro and Seth Thomas and Silas Hoadley, with many an-
fesses to have striven for throughout, but he has also other early horologer, received from Mrs. Moore the
remained throughout a cordial admirer of the “Pale honor due to their inventiveness and skill. Not un-
Emperor” as well as of his beautiful Spanish con naturally the State associated (however unjustly)
sort. Facilities for acquainting himself with the with the manufacture of wooden nutmegs is found
Emperor's personal traits seem not to have been lack to have led the way in American clock-making, the
ing to him, and his chapters have an air of author- | above-named clock-makers being all Connecticut
ity, of command of their theme, that greatly makes men. But the book under notice by no means slights
for their readability. A number of rather impor the achievements of English artisans in horology, the
tant letters too are inserted that throw light on the first half of the volume being devoted chiefly thereto.


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Careful lists of English and American clock-makers, Pindar"), of the “Demoniacs,” of the author of
with an index to the book's contents, follow the read. “Vathek,” of the brilliant Charles James Fox, and
ing matter, and more than a hundred illustrations of the versatile Philip, Duke of Wharton - good
are inserted. The book has distinction in its cover | reading a-plenty for admirers of the later eighteenth
design and its agreeably-tinted paper.
century, and well illustrated with portraits.
The glamour that surrounds a throne, in the eyes Scarcely four months have passed since the la-
of those not compelled by a cruel destiny to sit there mented death, in the young prime of her years, of
on, will secure many eager readers for Mr. Kellogg Mrs. Myrtle Reed McCullough; yet already a careful
Durland's “Royal Romances of To-day” (Duffield). hand has compiled a “Myrtle Reed Year Book”
Commissioned by a popular monthly to write a series (Putnam) which will please her old friends and win
of articles on the Empress of Russia, the Queen of new ones. Miss Jeannette L. Gilder contributes a
Italy, and the Queen of Spain, Mr. Durland took pains short preface, and Miss Mary Badollet Powell a bio-
to make these portraits of royalty as pleasing to the graphical sketch with some critical appreciation of
eye as was compatible with fidelity to the truth so Myrtle Reed's writings. The books of prose and
far as he could ascertain it by personal inquiry. He verse, sixteen in number, from which the calendar
visited Russia, Italy, and Spain for the express pur selections are drawn, have no lack of pithy, epigram-
pose of preparing these chapters on their respective matic, and often homely sayings, such as, “Fame is
queens, which are now gathered into a substantial a laurel wreath laid upon a tomb,” “ Pedestals are
volume, well illustrated, and in every way attractive always lonely,” “ When Gossip takes snuff, Friend-
to the general reader. Intimate details of family ship sneezes,” and “A good forgettery is a happier
life, and an occasional glimpse of the family skeleton, possession than a good memory.” The book is beau-
make the narrative very real and human; and its tifully made and has a frontispiece portrait of her
general trustworthiness is sufficient for its purpose. whose wide popularity it is likely still further to
The book is among the most entertaining of its kind. | enlarge.
An unusual and pathetic interest attaches to Mr. To find sententious passages in Mr. Henry James's
James Whitcomb Riley's latest long poem, a love books to furnish a quotation for every day in the
story entitled “When She was About Sixteen,” | year, and thus to put together a “Henry James Year
lavishly and appropriately illustrated, with a sparing Book,” has been the joyfully-assumed labor of lit-
use of tint, by Mr. Howard Chandler Christy. The erary love undertaken by Miss Evelyn Garnault
author, it is feared, will hardly be able to use his Smalley with the cordialapproval of the distinguished
pen again, paralysis of the arm having overtaken novelist himself, as expressed in a preface, and to the
him; and as he declares his inability to compose equally hearty satisfaction of the novelist's friend
otherwise than with pen in hand, this is likely to Mr. Howells, as manifested in a second part of the
prove his last contribution to poetry. This metrical same preface. Among these three hundred and sixty-
tale of love is, in form, a small boy's rehearsal of six specimens of Mr. James's felicities of thought and
his uncle's account of how the small boy's father | expression, it is no surprise to find few or none of
wooed and won the girl of sweet sixteen who in due | apothegmatic brevity. Some, indeed, fill each an
time became the small boy's mother. It is all in entire page, which makes the book all the more faith-
boy dialect, and hinges largely on a stern parent's fully illustrative of his style. The selections, ad-
determination that his daughter shall not marry the mirably characteristic and wisely chosen, have of
man of her choice. But love can find a way, and course no reference to the calendar dates above them,
so all ends happily. The book, quarto in form, is nor do they even attempt a chronological order in re-
ornate in the extreme, without and within, and is spect to their source. The work quoted and its date
attractively boxed. (Bobbs-Merrill Co.)
of publication are given with every passage, and blank
Mr. Lewis Melville has chosen a taking title for spaces are liberally provided for manuscript addi-
his collection of eighteenth-century studies, “Some tions. (Badger.)
Eccentrics and a Woman," imported by James Pott! No one could be better qualified in several im-
& Co. The woman in question (we give her first portant respects to sketch briefly and sympatheti-
place, though the author does not) is Mrs. Elizabeth cally the life of Robert Louis Stevenson than Mrs.
Draper, the young, charming, and unhappily-married Isobel Strong. A volume of eighty-seven pages
lady who is better known as “Sterne's Eliza,” and presents in a few agreeable and stimulating chap-
whose celebrity under that designation her admirer ters (“The Child," "The Youth,” “The Man,"
hoped to make wider than that of even Swift's Stella “ The Writer," etc.), the phases of Stevenson's mer-
or Waller's Sacharissa. A Platonic love Mr. Mel- curial personality that most appeal to our curiosity.
ville believes this sentiment of Sterne's to have been, When it is added, in further description of the little
and his sketch of Mrs. Draper's life, largely from book, that Stevenson the writer is disposed of in
unpublished letters now first drawn upon to any ex- eight pages, and Stevenson the poet in six, it will
tent, is unobjectionable in character. Other chapters | be seen that this is no exhaustive and critical biog-
in this necessarily personal and somewhat gossipy raphy, but rather a Stevenson primer for younger
volume treat of the boon companions of him who readers; and as such it is to be commended. It
afterward became King George the Fourth, of some bears the simple title, “ Robert Louis Stevenson,"
dandies of the Regency, of Dr. John Wolcot (“ Peter and is issued by that author's American publishers,


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the Scribners. His portrait and a view showing him long, the set constitutes a quite marvellous example
dictating to Mrs. Strong in the library at Vailima of the multum in parvo wherein present-day pub-
are given in the book.
lishers so notably excel those of an earlier time.
“ The Best English and Scottish Ballads,” selected | Anthologies of the words of the wise seem to have
by Mr. Edward A. Bryant, is issued by the Thomas a perennial popularity. It would seem difficult to do
Y. Crowell Co. The text of the ballads adopted by | anything strikingly original in this well-worked field,
the editor is in general that of the Percy Folio but Miss Marie West King has nearly accomplished
MS., as edited by Hales and Furnivall; but “a few the feat. In the “ Recipe for a Happy Life” (Paul
changes in the way of omissions of too broad verses Elder) she has taken the short inspirational essay of
and toning down of coarse phrases, with due care that title originally written by Queen Margaret of
not to change the sense, have been made.” The Navarre in 1500, and added to it passages from later
dedication is, appropriately, “to the memory of writers which expand the suggestions made by the
Francis James Child.” The book runs to three Renaissance queen. The volume is elaborately deco-
hundred and seventy-five pages, with glossary and rated and bound. – A third series of the popular
index, and has a frontispiece illustration to “The “Catchwords of Cheer” (McClurg) has been pre-
Nut-Brown Maid.”
pared by Mrs. Sara A. Hubbard.—Two little books of
“ The Twelve Best Tales by English Writers,” | quotations, “Courage, Ambition, Resolution ” and
selected by Mr. Adam L. Gowans, forms a companion “Conduct, Health, and Good Fortune” (McClurg),
volume to “The Best English and Scottish Ballads” | in uniform red binding, come from the wide reading
issued by the T. Y. Crowell Co. The twelve tales and careful culling of Mrs. Grace Browne Strand.
should strictly be called “British” rather than “En A distinctive need, among inexpensive Holiday
glish,” since they include stories by Scott, James gifts, is supplied by several small volumes which are
Hogg, Dr. John Brown, and Robert Louis Stevenson. inspired by the religious associations of the season.
The English writers represented are Dickens, Thack Among these are an allegory, “ The Mansion”
eray, and Mrs. Gaskell, - a minority, in fact. De- | (Harper), dealing with a rich man's disappointment
signation of the particular work drawn upon in each at his treatment in heaven, and a short Christmas
instance would have been not out of place; but no story, “The Sad Shepherd” (Scribner), both by
story, “The Sad Shepherd” (scri
such bibliographical finger-posts appear, except one Dr. Henry van Dyke. The scene of the latter tale
or two in the Preface. The selections themselves are is laid in the Holy Land in the time of Christ. —
good, and they are preceded by a portrait of Sir “The Syrian Shepherd's Psalm” (Stokes) is a new
Walter and the above-mentioned preface.
version of the Twenty-third Psalm, illustrated in
Negro verse, like negro music, has a nameless color, and with comment, by Mr. Jules Guérin, and
charm of its own. Among the best of the good old accompanied by metrical and other old versions,
fashioned “darky” songs and jingles are those
with appreciations of the psalm by Spurgeon,
contained in “Ben King's Southland Melodies”. Beecher, and W. M. Thompson. - Dr. J. R. Miller
(Forbes & Co.), illustrated from photographs of ne- | adds to his long list of similar books a short study,
gro characters and scenes from negro life by Miss “Learning to Love” (Crowell). The booklet is
Essie Collins Matthews and Mr. Leigh Richmond
appropriately illustrated in color. — “The Great
Miner. A portrait of the composer himself is given
Adventure" (Stokes), by Miss Louise Pond Jewell,
as frontispiece, and the melodies number nearly two-
is a treatment of Death by a woman who, after
score, all in genuine “darky" dialect, and with the clear thinking and true feeling, has come to regard
most toe-tickling “darky" rhythm. The illustra Death as simply the beginning of a great adventure
tions, print, binding, etc., are all in harmony. of the soul. — Five short essays by Dr. Henry van
Dyke, “The Poetry of the Psalms,” “Joy and
SOME HOLIDAY BOOKLETS.
Power,” “The Good Old Way," “ Ships and
In the “Miniature Series" published by Crowell, Havens," and “ The Battle of Life," have been
poetry-lovers will be glad to find the daintiest of bound separately in white paper, decorated, each
vest-pocket editions, morocco-bound and in clear one separately boxed (Crowell). — An attractive
type, of ten little masterpieces in verse, - Fitz- “ Envelope Series" (Crowell) consists of “Young
Gerald's rendering of the “ Rubaiyat,” Whittier's Men: Faults and Ideals,” “Girls, Their Faults and
“Snowbound,” Mr. Kipling's “ Recessional,” Gray's | Ideals,” by Dr. James Russell Miller ; “Ships and
“ Elegy,” Mrs. Browning's “Sonnets from the Por- | Havens” and “Joy and Power," by Dr. Henry van
tuguese,” Goldsmith's “ Deserted Village” and Dyke; and “Where God is there Love is Also,"
“ Traveller,” Poe's “Raven,” Oscar Wilde's “ Bal- by Leo Tolstoy. — “The Twelfth Christmas : The
lad of Reading Gaol," and Lowell's “ Vision of Sir Christ Child's Revelation” (Forbes) is a short idyll
Launfal.” There are but seventy-five of the “Ru- in dramatic form by Miss Majorie Benton Cooke.
baiyat” in the FitzGerald booklet, instead of the “The Smile of the Christ Child” (Eaton & Mains)
hundred and one which he finally prepared; other is an idyllic Christmas story by Mr. Arthur Benton
wise there seems to be no shortness of measure in Sanford.
these diminutive reprints. The page measures two Some appropriate little stories appear in holiday
and one-half by two inches, and has a not ungener-| booklet form. Mrs. Mary R. S. Andrews, author of
ous margin. In a box only four and a quarter inches | “ The Perfect Tribute," has this year a story of a


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college boy's fight against the odds of life, entitled Authors in search of titles have often gone to Shake-
* The Courage of the Commonplace” (Scribner). -- speare, and Mr. Volney Streamer has prepared an
“ The Fourth Physician” (McClurg) is a longer | interesting collection of “ Book Titles from Shake-
story by Mr. Montgomery H. Pickett, which deals | speare” (Mitchell Kennerley) in which he lists for us
with the power of faith and love as aids to medical the authors, the books, and the particular lines they
skill. — "The Gift of the Wise Men” (Doubleday) used for their purpose.— Two of the smaller holiday
is reprinted from the late 0. Henry's “ The Four books are for the lover of charades. “Broken Words”
Million.” The story, with its colored illustrations (Houghton) is by the veteran charadist, Mr. William
by Mr. C. M. Relyea, breathes the authentic spirit Bellamy; and "Charades ” (Little, Brown) is mod-
of Christmas.—“The Boy who Brought Christmas” estly attributed to "An Idle Man.” Both booklets
(Doubleday) comprises four stories by Miss Alice hold forth rich promise of mystification. — “Trees
Morgan, dealing with Christmas in the North Car and Men,” by Dr. William Valentine Kelley, endeav-
olina mountains. In “The Peace of Solomon Val | ors to extract not commercial but spiritual values out
ley” (McClurg), Mrs. Margaret Hill McCarter tells of the trees of the forest or lawn. A similar service
a story in celebration of the virtues of Kansas and for books is done by Dr. Lynn Harold Hough in “The
Kansas people. — A new edition of that perennial Lure of Books” (Eaton & Mains). – That some
favorite, "The Transfiguration of Miss Philura,” by prayers are fitted for outdoor appreciation is the idea
Miss Florence Morse Kingsley, has been printed of Dr. George A. Miller, who gives a selection of such
and illustrated in a manner worthy of the book's | aspirations in “Some Outdoor Prayers" (Crowell).
previous popularity (Funk & Wagnalls).
-"From the Heights" is the title under which Mr.
Another group of these Christmas booklets rep- John Wesley Carter gives some homeopathic doses
resents those in which the element of humor has a of inspiration and corrective to our too hurried living
leading place. In “The Lyrics of Eliza” (Cen- | (McClurg).-A number of pleasing sonnets grouped
tury Co.), interpreted by Mr. D. K. Stevens, the hu- under the title “ To Mother” come from Miss Mar-
mor is largely at the reader's expense, as Eliza is a jorie Benton Cooke (Forbes & Co.)— “What of the
rather hypercritical house-cat. — From aristocratic Merry Christmas ?” and “What of the Happy New
cat verses, we come to some more plebeian but no Year?" (Duffield) are companion volumes of a
less humorous “ Vegetable Verselets” (Lippincott), | thought-provoking nature, by Mrs. Jane Ellis Joy.-
written and illustrated by Miss Margaret G. Hays The “Little Uplifts” of Mr. Humphrey J. Desmond,
and Miss Grace Wiederseim.—“Pickaninny Name (McClurg), will appeal to all who are willing to take
sakes” (F. F. Sherman) is an alphabet of verses inspirational advice to the end that they may lead
and pictures, exhibiting the old-time Southern negro happier and saner lives.—Mr. James Terry White's
child, written and illustrated by Mrs. Eloise Lee “For Lovers and Others: A Book of Roses" is re-
Sherman. — “ Abe Martin's Almanack” (Double issued in a prettily decorated author's edition
day) is also the work of an author who can both (Stokes).
write and illustrate. In its pages “Kin " Hubbard,
known far and wide by his Indiana character, “ Abe
Martin," takes us through the year with Abe and a
NOTES.
few other Indiana rural folk. — “Square Beasts and
Curved” (Paul Elder) are just what their name im-
“ A Guide to the Philosophy of Henri Bergson," by
plies, Dr. George A. Harker both draws them with
Mr. A. D. Lindsay, is soon to be issued by the George
H. Doran Co.
facile pencil and explains their curves and angles in
short couplets. —" The Song of the Evening Stars"
“ The Eagle's Bride," a new bird-poem, by the Rev.
0. C. Auringer, is issued in holiday form by the W. R.
(Badger) has to do not with the skies, but with the
Jenkins Co., New York.
stage. Miss Anna Matthewson writes verses and
A volume of poems entitled “Discords," by Mr.
limericks satirizing the Stars, their managers, and Donald Evans, is announced for immediate publication
their parts, and Senor Enrico Caruso accompanies by Messrs. Brown Brothers of Philadelphia.
her with the cartoonist's pencil, which he wields « Idas and Marpessa: An Idyll of Constancy,” by
with respectable ability.
Mr. H. V. Sutherland, is to be published early in the
Some of the most attractive of the holiday book coming year by Mr. Desmond FitzGerald of New York.
lets (like interesting people) fit into no particular The growing reputation of Mr. John Galsworthy in
category. “Legends of Long Ago” (Abbey Com this country has led his American publishers, Messrs.
pany), a translation from the German classic of Scribner, to issue an interesting pamphlet sketch of Mr.
Gottfried Keller, by Mr. Charles Hart Handschim,
Galsworthy's life and work, with a portrait.
is a case in point. The six stories here given rep-
Dr. Wilfred T. Grenfell will deliver the William Bel-
den Noble lectures for 1911-12 at Harvard University,
resent Keller at his best. — “Good Things” (Paul
His general subject will be « The Adventure of Life.”
Elder), by Miss Isabel Goodhue, tells, in the form
His lectures are to be published in book form by Hough-
of cookery recipes, how to obtain pleasing char ton Mifflin Co. next Spring.
acteristics and disposition. — “Gotterdamerung" The three lectures which John Fiske prepared for an
(Crowell) is the music-drama of Wagner retold in English audience in 1880, and which were afterwards
English verse by Mr. Oliver Huckel. The version published under the title of “ American Political Ideas,"
is illustrated and prefaced by a short introduction.-- | are too valuable to lose sight of, and we welcome the


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A
new edition sent us by the Houghton Mifflin Co., to which
has been added « The Story of a New England Town"
LIST OF NEW BOOKS.
(Middletown), written twenty years later. Mr. John (The following list, containing 64 titles, includes books
Spencer Clark has contributed a lengthy and interesting received by THE DIAL since its last issue.]
introduction to the volume.
BIOGRAPHY AND REMINISCENCES.
“The Autograph," a periodical devoted to the inter-
The Life of John Ruskin. By Edward Tyas Cook.
ests of autograph and historical collectors, has recently In 2 volumes, with photogravure portraits, 8vo.
been started by Mr. P. F. Madigan of New York. The Macmillan Co. $7. net.
contents consist, for the most part, of hitherto unpub-
tente consist for the most part of hitherto unpub | My Story. By Tom L. Johnson; edited by Elizabeth
lished letters by famous writers.
J. Hauser. Illustrated, 8vo, 326 pages. B. W.
Huebsch. $2. net.
The authorized biography of the late Dr. Arthur T. Recollections of an Officer of Napoleon's Army.
Pierson is being written by his son, Mr. Delevan Leonard
Translated from the French of Captain Elzéar
Blaze by E. Jules Méras. Illustrated, 12mo, 280
Pierson, for twenty years co-editor with his father of the
pages. Sturgis & Walton Co. $1.50 net.
“ Missionary Review of the World." The biography is
to be published as early as possible in 1912 by the Baker
HISTORY.
& Taylor Co.
The Truth about Chickamauga. By Archibald
Gracie. Illustrated, large 8vo, 494 pages.
A volume by the distinguished lawyer and writer, Houghton, Mifflin Co. $4, net.
William Allen Butler, is announced by Messrs. Charles The Cambridge Medieval History. Planned by J. B.
Scribner's Sons. It is called “A Retrospect of Forty
Bury; edited by H. M. G. Watkin and J. P.
Whitney. Volume I: The Christian Roman Em-
Years, 1825-1865," and is edited by the author's daugh-
pire and the Foundation of the Teutonic King-
ter, Harriet Allen Butler. The volume not only gives doms. With maps, large 8vo, 776 pages. Mac-
an interesting and unassuming narrative of the author's
millan Co. $5. net.
career, but embodies also a succinct account of the
History of the Peninsular War. By Charles
Oman. Volume IV., December, 1810-December,
growth of the anti-slavery sentiment in this country and
1811. Illustrated, 8vo, 678 pages. Oxford Uni-
of other important developments, political and social, versity Press. $4.75 net.
during the period covered.
The Expedition of the Donner Party, and Its Tragic
Fate. By Eliza P. Donner-Houghton. Illus-
The «pocket edition" of Tolstoy, published by Messrs. trated, 8vo, 396 pages. A. C. McClurg & Co. $2.
Thomas Y. Crowell Co., gives us in fourteen volumes net.
practically the whole of the author's work. There are
The Greek Commonwealth. Politics and Econom-
ics in Fifth-Century Athens. By Alfred E. Zim-
really twenty-two volumes bound in the fourteen, all
mern. With maps, 8vo, 454 pages. Oxford Uni-
printed upon thin paper, and of easily pocketable dimen versity Press. $2.90 net.
sions. Six of the volumes are filled by the three great The British Consuls in the Confederacy. By Mil-
novels, “Childhood, Boyhood, Youth” fills another, and
ledge L. Bonham. 8vo. 267 pages. "Columbia
University Studies in Political Science." Colum-
the remaining seven give us two or three works each, in-
bia University Press. Paper, $2. net.
cluding the dramas, the short stories, the religious tracts, Writings on American History. A Bibliography of
and “ What is Art?” The translations are by various
Books and Articles published in 1909. Compiled
by Grace Gardner Griffin. 8vo, 301 pages.
hands, and have been published in earlier editions.
Washington: American Historical Association.
Each volume has a frontispiece.
The Classical Heritage of the Middle Ages. By
From Buffalo, N. Y., comes the first number of Henry Osborn Taylor. Third edition; 12mo, 417
« The Civic Forum," a bi-monthly magazine devoted
pages. Macmillan Co. $1.75 net.
to the free discussion of “political, social, and moral
GENERAL LITERATURE
ideals.” The courts, in relation to popular government,
Hail and Farewell, By George Moore. Volume I.,
the President, and Congress, are among the matters dis-
Ave. 12mo, 390 pages. D. Appleton & Co.
$1.75 net.
cussed in this initial number. The issues dealt with in
Some American Story Tellers. By Frederic Taber
a magazine of this character are serious ones, and as Cooper. Illustrated. 12mo, 397 pages. Henry
a rule do not need the adventitious aid of illustrations
Holt & Co. $1.60 net.
in their presentment. This remark is called forth by
Thomas Carlyle: A Study of His Literary Appren-
ticeship. 1814-1831. By William Savage John-
the fact that the pen-and-ink drawings which accom son. With portrait, 12mo, 142 pages. Yale Uni-
pany a piece of sociological fiction-writing in this num versity Press. $1. net.
ber are far from adding to the dignity of a magazine
The Wagner Stories: Retold from the Music-Dra-
mas by Filson Young; with Metrical Transla-
which claims to have ideals.
tions of Lyrical Portions by Eric MacLagan.
The series on “ Modern American Library Economy" With frontispiece, 8vo, 311 pages. Henry Holt
edited by Mr. John Cotton Dana and based on the prac-
& Co. $1.50 net.
Heinrich Heine By Michael Monahan. 12mo, 48
tice of the library under his charge (that of Newark,
pages. Mitchell Kennerley. $1. net.
N. J.) is now about half completed, the latest of the The Soliloqules of Shakespeare: A Study in Tech-
pamphlet sections to appear being the fifth of part five, nic. By Morris LeRoy Arnold. 8vo, 187 pages.
entitled “Work with Schools : School Libraries.” Miss
"Columbia University Lectures." New York:
Lemcke & Buechner. $1.25 net.
Grace Thompson, of the school department of the New-
Essays and Studies. By Members of the English
ark Free Public Library, writes the pamphlet in col Association Collected by H. C. Beeching. Vol-
laboration with Mr. Dana. A strong plea is made for
ume II., 8vo, 182 pages. Oxford University Press.
$1.75 net.
the full all-the-year-round use of public school buildings
Poets and Poetry: Being Articles Reprinted from
for public purposes, the branch library being one of the the Literary Supplement of "The Times." By
subordinate departments that it might advantageously John Bailey. 8vo, 217 pages. Oxford University
shelter. Every detail of the care and use of school
Press. $1.75 net.
FICTION,
libraries is carefully explained, with accompanying illus- La
A Likely Story. By William De Morgan. With
trative cuts and one full-page photo-engraving. (Elm portrait. 12mo, 370 pages. Henry Holt & Co.
Tree Press, Woodstock, Vt.)
$1.35 net.
ham Savageeth


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The Fool in Christ: Emmanuel Quint. Translated
from the German of Gerhart Hauptmann by
Thomas Seltzer. 12mo, 474 pages. B. W.
Huebsch. $1.50 net.
The Indian Lily, and Other Stories. Translated
from the German of Hermann Sudermann by
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